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b"On this episode of the podcast, Oliver Pulleyblank, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by guest Jane Thomson to discuss a variety of topics that happen to relate to death. The first flows out of a recent case (https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/05/21/cadet-died-tragedy-now-his-parents-can-use-his-sperm-create-his-child-judge-rules/?utm_term=.dfa4ddec43e1) in which two parents were granted the right by a court to harvest the sperm of their deceased son for the purposes of creating a grandchild. The second involves a woman whose dying wish to have her dog euthanized and buried with her (https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/dog-buried-with-owner-trnd/index.html) was granted by her estate's executor.\\nIn obiter dicta, Hilary continues the death theme by discussing a recent Federal Court case in which damages in the amount of $20 million were awarded to members of a class action lawsuit against a company that reproduced obituaries on its website for profit without consent (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/damages-of-20-million-awarded-against-obituary-website-in-class-action-ruling), Oliver discusses his tomato plants and his daughter, Rob discusses a recent case from Newfoundland in which a man was acquitted of very unusual child pornography charges (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/n-l-man-found-not-guilty-of-possessing-child-pornography-in-sex-doll-trial) and Jane discusses her affection for reality television.\\nFind us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/stereodecisis) and\\xa0Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stereodecisis/) and support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/stereodecisis)"