Posted on 11/18/2016 12:23:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
A terminally ill teenager was granted her dying wish by Britain’s High Court to be frozen in hopes she can later be brought back to life.
A 14-year-old British girl, who was terminally ill with cancer and died last month, was supported by her mother to be frozen in the United States — cryonic preservation is not available in Britain — but her estranged father initially opposed the idea but later relented.
In what is the first legal case of its kind in Britain, the teen told the judge she didn’t want to be buried, but instead wanted her body to be preserved so she could potentially be brought back to life.
Cryonic preservation is a controversial and unproven process where immediately after death the body is cooled to ultralow temperatures. There is no evidence that an entire body can be frozen and later revived, but some people see the mere chance of one day waking up, however slim, a preferable option to certain death. The list of those taking the chance includes baseball great Ted Williams and Robert Ettinger, who founded a cryonic center in Michigan after reading a sci-fi story in the 1960s about reanimating a person from a deep freeze.
Although the girl was too ill to attend court in person, she said in a letter to the judge: “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 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,” she added.
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Okay. Well, good luck with that.
Geez, I know the kids today are obsessed with that movie, but this is ridiculous.
Life Extension. Benny the dog. Cryotainment.
Yes, good luck.
Woken up.
I think they mean “Wokened up” #Southernese
Anyone here remember the Star Trek TNG episode about the people the Enterprise found who were cryogenically frozen back in the 20th century?
Yes................
Wow.....i guess the only good thing here is she died thinking she would come back. Pfft?
Didn’t people in the 70’s and 80’s go on the frozen kick? Anyone defrost yet or is it too early?
I don’t remember one from TNG, mainly because I hardly ever watched it .. but I do remember the classic one from TOS -— Space Seed, the first mention and sight of Ricardo Montalban as Khan.
Whose footing the bill? Being kept at incredibly low temps for decades does not come cheap.
I don’t want any part of this. I don’t want to go before my appointed time, but as a believer I know that to die is gain.
good luck to her with this!
someday im sure it will be possible....
I remember it.
I also remember wondering why those people got shot out into space. I mean, it’s one thing to freeze people in case they can be cured in the future, which is a longshot in itself.
But then shoot them out into space and layer on the additional complexity of a spacecraft having to operate unattended for long periods, getting potentially lost or destroyed. Even if a cure is found, what good is it if nobody can find the spacecraft?
If they didn’t want them kept around on Earth, they could have at least stuck them on the moon rather than just setting them adrift.
Larry Niven wrote a series of SciFi books in the 70s about people who did this. Yes, they were woken up in the future, where they could be cured. Unfortunately for these “corpsesickles” the future society has a huge demand for human organs for transplants, and these people have no viable skills in the future. Unless they can convince the socialist government death panel that they can be a benefit they are sent to the organ banks for dissection. Oops.
Yeah, they were called the 47’s... Fun episode.
Especially with the country singer and Data. And then there was also the business executive and Picard.
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