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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, @09:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @09:12AM (#429347)

    Now people with your apparent level of empathy, and hatred of immigrants, would just grind them up as cheap food, clinical test subjects, or new slaves in 100 years after shooting the last group of protestors asking for corporate regulations against such practices with the Lorax over in the corner with a ball-gag in his mouth being serviced by the gimp.

    Ironically, assuming that objection to immigration policies is evidence of being de facto pro-genocide is quite unemphatic of you. Pot, you are a black.