The widow of crazed journalist and drug aficionado Hunter S. Thompson, who killed himself in his kitchen in 2005, says she could conceive of having a Hunter Jr. toddling around the cabin shooting toy guns and betting on the NFL. And that actually might be possible, because before his suicide, Thompson had some of his sperm frozen.

“Hunter and I were always trying to have children,” Anita Thompson told a newspaper, “but we just never did.” She broke down in tears recently while reading a New York Times article on home birthing, the memories flooding back of the couple’s incomplete family unit. “Hunter was such a loving person that it would have been a joy to have a family with him. But I could still have his child if I want to. He left that possibility for me but it’s a long series of ethical questions for me whether I would want to have his child now.”

We knew that one day, because of our age difference, Hunter would die and I would still be alive,” Anita, 36, said. “We had hoped that I would have children and that they would be older by the time Hunter passed away, but we weren’t blind to the fact that Hunter was 35 years older than me. It wasn’t a constant discussion but it was something that we had considered.”

And so what are the ethical issues surrounding a possible heir to the Gonzo throne? “Children do better with a father. I believe it’s something Hunter would want but at this point in my life I’m a little fearful of making that kind of decision. I wouldn’t want to do it as a way of replicating Hunter, of prolonging Hunter, or as a way of filling the void. It’s something I haven’t decided on yet.”