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posted by janrinok on Saturday November 19 2016, @02:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the dying-to-live dept.

A terminally ill 14-year-old girl from the London area recently won a legal battle that allowed her to be cryogenically preserved in the U.S. against her father's wishes:

A 14-year-old girl who wanted her body to be frozen so she could be brought back to life, won an historic legal fight shortly before her death. The girl, who was terminally ill with a rare cancer, was supported in her wish to be cryogenically preserved by her mother - but not by her father. A High Court judge ruled that the girl's mother should be allowed to decide what happened to the body.

The girl, who died in October, has now been taken to the US and frozen. The details of her case have just been released. The teenager - who cannot be named - and who lived in the London area, used the internet to investigate cryonics during the last months of her life.

[...] The teenager's letter to the judge

"I have been asked to explain why I want this unusual thing done. I am only 14 years old and I don't want to die but I know I am going to die. I think being cryopreserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up - even in hundreds of years' time. I don't want to be buried underground. I want to live and live longer and I think that in the future they may find a cure for my cancer and wake me up. I want to have this chance. This is my wish."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:05AM (#429249)

    That's why they need to shoot them into space in specially made satellites. Then a spaceship can bump into them by accident in deep space. Once they scan the thing and get the readings, they can then revive the people on board. This will almost lead to an intragalactic incident with aliens supporting pointed ears and bowl cuts.

    In all seriousness, even if they would want to go to the expense of reviving the people, there is serious questions as to whether it is even possible. There are serious issues involved in thawing someone at the molecular level. At that scale, ice crystals form tiny razors that cut everything to shreds and the cold temp can denature molecules.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:39AM (#429255)

    The unanswered question being, which aliens removed the satellite from orbit and towed it into deep space? Borg?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:22AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:22AM (#429267)

      "In an extended scene in the script of the episode, Worf states that, there was no way a satellite like this could have broken orbit and traveled the distance it had on its own power, even in thousands of years. They discover that the empty crypts had been forced opened and the occupants taken. To Data this suggested that, who ever took the satellite."

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday November 19 2016, @08:55AM

    by driverless (4770) on Saturday November 19 2016, @08:55AM (#429345)

    Oh rubbish! I've seen it done in numerous bad science fiction and horror movies, of course it's possible!

    (This post has nothing to do with the fact that my brother-in-law runs Fred's Freezing Works and Human Body Freezing, Inc).