A 14-year-old British girl, who wanted her body to be frozen
so she could later be “woken up”, won an historic legal fight shortly before
her death.
"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," the terminally-ill
cancer victim wrote to a judge before her recent death.
She told the judge “being cryo-preserved gives me a chance
to be cured and woken up, even in hundreds of years’ time.”
Her letter convinced High Court Judge Peter Jackson to
fulfill her last wish in what he said was the first case of it’s kind in
England, according to the AP.
The judge reportedly said the teenager, who cannot be named
for legal reasons, had chosen the most basic preservation option at a cost of
$46,000.
Her parents, who are divorced, initially disagreed about the
decision. Her mother favored the option while her father did not, although he
softened his stance as his daughter’s death drew near.
The teenage girl asked the court to designate her mother as
the only one who could dispose of her remains to ensure cryogenic preservation.
The ruling came in October and cleared the way for her
remains to be taken to a specialist facility in the United States to begin the
preservation process.
“I don’t want to be
buried underground,” she wrote toward the end of her note. “I want to have this
chance. This is my wish.”
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