Since apparently you can use hemalurgy from conception on, once IVF becomes a thing you can just stab excess embryos in Petri dishes.
This is actually very interesting, since both the Scadrian pro-choice crowd and those who don’t think an embryo in a Petri dish counts as “alive” will consider this perfectly ethical. Those who are against experimentation on human embryos will be against it. It would make for a very interesting moral debate, paralleling the RL one regarding using extra embryos for science.
@Infinitysliver A lot of times people committing suicide feel their loved ones are better off without them. Being able to leave their families something might play into a suicide. Or they might think that they’re only valuable for their ability, so choose a method that allows that to be retained. Depression is not rational and neither are suicidal thoughts or ideations.
I can also see people who are dying feeling that this way they can stay around in some form. Or family members choosing to this when removing life support so they’ll still have a piece of the person. I can definitely see this happening in cases of infant loss, for example. Even having the spike play a role in therapy, such as melting it down into earrings.