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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, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @04:47PM (#429453)

    why has he not replied to refute your statement? maybe not enough time has passed.

    but i agree that you nailed the problem pretty succintly. he is even worring about future science fiction theoretical welfare recipients taking his job. Heaven help her if she isn't white, because she's already a cost in his mind.

    Perhaps he can be for a big government that requires a savings account set up to off-set expenses they would incur upon re-awakening, which he can then mandate is raided later to pay for his retirement since waking all those people up would deny him of his basic entitlements.