Posted on 11/17/2016 4:20:22 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Knowing she had only weeks to live rather than her whole life ahead of her, a dying schoolgirl desperately turned to cryogenics in the hope she could one day be brought back.
Described as a “bright, intelligent young person”, the tragic 14-year-old spent her last months fervently researching how she could be frozen until a cure is found for her rare form of cancer in the future.
But as she ran out of time, her divorced parents were locked in a bitter battle about what to do with her remains.
Too young to make a will, the teenager went to court to protect her dying wish.
In a heartbreaking letter to the judge, she said that while she did not want to die, she had accepted her fate.
She wrote: “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.”
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She should let it go.
She’s 14. She’s a dreamer, and I mean that in the most positive and hopeful sense.
Find Jesus and live again.
Sadly, sounds like she has no GOD in her life.
God my have her in his
I disagree.
If a frog or a bee can do it there is no reason a human can’t do it.
However how a human is frozen is probably more important than how they are thawed so it is probably not going to work for her because they have not figured out the proper way to freeze humans yet.
I thought to myself why would the father care if he didn’t see her for 8 years. But now I wonder if he was being “asked” to pay for freezing his daughter’s remains.
This is criminally stupid.
Exactly. Was about to say:
Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
Live forever. No disease, no illness, no wants, no problems.....
If the time ever comes where they can defrost and cure her, who’d going to want to?
>>If the time ever comes where they can defrost and cure her, who’d going to want to?<<
Interesting thing.....you pay to keep your remains frozen. But then you expect a future generation to heal you for free.
Hopefully she won’t wake up to that world.
Well, they did still have Taco Bell.
But the portions were a bit smaller.
Be well.
Frogs have natural “antifreeze” in their systems that keep their cells from exploding, when frozen.
We do not.
The movie, Forever Young...
This stuff never made any sense to me.
She will be dead, therefore, her soul will move on.
*If* her body were to be ‘revived’, what of her soul, which has already left?
"The [hospital] trust is not endorsing cryonics: on the contrary, all the professionals feel deep unease about it.”
The judge said cryonics was “controversial”.
I don’t see anything in cryonics to raise medical ethics questions.
If they have ethical questions with cryonics they should have questions with embalming. I see no difference between the two processes other than price.
The hospital should have no issues with what happens to the girl’s body after death. The hospital’s roll and duty to the girl ends at death.
I don’t see where the controversy lies. The cryonics industry offers a service of body preservation. It may be a false hope or it may not be.
No one knows the future but God. The only controversy lies with the parents over whether to accommodate their daughter’s wish or not.
She's 14, Jeffry Epstein?
My point exactly.
Is their any reason such an anti-freeze could not be added to a human body?
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