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Terminally Ill 14-Year-Old Girl Cryogenically Preserved After Death Following UK High Court Ruling

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

takyon writes:

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: 2) by edIII on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:55AM

    by edIII (791) on Saturday November 19 2016, @03:55AM (#429260)

    Did you miss the part where she is 14?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:00AM (#429263)

    Two hundred years from now, a virus will kill everyone over 18.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:34AM (#429275)

    Nope.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by darkfeline on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:24AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:24AM (#429289) Homepage

    100 years in the future she will be 114.

    S'all good.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @06:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @06:30AM (#429309)

    Space-Pedo-Bear?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @09:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @09:05AM (#429346)

    Only for a year. Also, it's not a psychological abnormality to experience sexual attraction to anyone who has undergone puberty, people will definitely want to fuck her even if they don't want to admit it because of social taboos.