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A Queensland woman granted permission to preserve her dead partner's sperm has described him as her rock, best friend and soulmate.
Krystle Jane Ross, 23, made the application in the Queensland Supreme Court last week, the day after her partner Thomas Takurau, 25, died in a workplace accident.
While Justice John Byrne granted Ross permission to preserve the sperm, a date has yet to be set for hearing Ross' application to actually use it.
Ross has been unavailable for comment but in a posting made on her MySpace page before Takurau died, she wrote that she could not imagine her life without him.
"I am madly in love with the only man in this world that could possibly tolerate me ... Thomas, who is Maori, 25," Ross wrote.
"(He is) a split personality Gemini and the most amazing and loving man I know!
"I love animals, thus my choice in boyfriend (joking baby, you know I love you). " Both Ross' and Takurau's profiles state they someday wanted children.
"(He's) my rock, my best friend, my lover, my soul mate and my all, we've been together just over two years and I couldn't imagine a day without him," Ross' profile says.
It is one of only two known legal applications of this kind to be granted in Queensland history.
- AAP
