Soldier's Family to Inseminate Woman for Grandchildren

This FoxNews article telling the story of an Israeli family who has had their son's sperm removed and saved since 2002, has been given the go ahead to use the sperm in order to have grandkids. To me, this is really twisted and bizarre, especially since the soldier wasn't even married at the time of his death. I understand the desire to have grandchildren, but I think this is a little overboard. The Israel court has allowed it, but I'm not sure it would've played out the same way in the United States. Favorite quote from the article:

Cohen said that she was guided in her decision by her dead son. “An hour after being told he had been killed I took his picture and started talking to him. I asked him, ‘Where are all the children you wanted?’ then looked at the picture and heard him saying, ‘Mum, it’s not too late. There is something you can take from me’.

“Then it came to me — ‘Your sperm, that’s what you want me to take from you’. Right there, I asked the officers who came to visit to make sure his sperm be kept.”