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Why are couples having so much difficulty deciding what to do with their embryos? I feel as if my partner and I were in the same situation we would both lean toward donating the unused embryos. What is the point of leaving the embryos to get to the point where they could not be used at all? Rather, shouldn't it be an obligation on our part to donate it to research to try and help millions of people? I mean isn't it a bit selfish to want to freeze your "extra" embryos solely for the comfort of knowing they are still there. Some individuals feel that each embryo is their potential child while others do not. Perhaps it may be due to the fact that they see what they have created, carried and loved. The entire concept and idea of them having to potentially give up another baby like their very own is stressful and overwhelming. Whatever the case may be, I definitely believe that the fate of the embryos should be discussed and defined before they are created. After doing some research, I found that there are over 200,000 embryos that are left over from in vitro fertilization attempts to help couples have children. The unused embryos are frozen in labs all over the United States, waiting for a decision about what will be done with them. The United States, unlike other countries, has no rules about how long human embryos can remain frozen before a decision about their fate must be made. This has led to a growing number of unused frozen embryos, with many suggestions but little consensus about what exactly should happen to them. As it stands, couples are given the option of leaving the embryos frozen for later use, donate them to other couples, donate them for research, or just discard them. I think it is really important for couples to have a clear cut plan of what they are going to be doing with their embryos. In the article they mention a so-called "natural" way of killing the embryos..."having them placed in the woman's body a time in her cycle when she would probably n