another use for those eggs

From New York Magazine via Brian Van:

It’s the ultimate New York careerist dream: Work (and play) now, conceive later. Has science finally made it possible? The promises and pitfalls of putting your eggs on ice.

...one day last spring, she was complaining to an older friend about her situation when the friend mentioned a new technology she had just read about that allows a woman to freeze her eggs while they are fertile and then thaw them out when she is ready. Nette got excited. Could this be real? She could get her law degree at 40, meet the man she wanted to marry, and conceive a child—her own biological child—sometime, anytime, after that. Egg freezing would be like putting her body on hold until her life could catch up.

Brian adds: "Interesting what people will do for careerism, considering that the social contract between corporations and staff has clearly been forgotten by modern-day executives. And it was never really there in the first place. Why do people put everything they've got into archaic employment models? This will be a major cause of social problems over the next 10-20 years."

It would be ironic if I donated eggs at 26 and then didn't bother to use any myself before they got stale.

(Interestingly, a lot of people seem to be under the impression that menopause occurs when women "run out" of eggs. While it has generally been thought that women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have, it's still many more eggs than they could use at a one-a-month rate over a few decades; what happens in the end is they just go bad. Bad eggs! I am reminded of my favorite Far Side cartoon, which depicted a dish of potato salad with a gun, holding up the other groceries in the fridge, above the caption "When potato salad goes bad.")