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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She needs to let it go.
Wouldn’t it be better to be frozen just before death?
Is she going to pay for it?
Dark Star! /ultra obscure
If it gave her Hope ,good
Giving people false hope is not good. This world has many ideas on how to achieve eternal life, all of which don’t include the only true hope of eternal life, Jesus Christ.
Exactly, it’s a (pathetic) eternal life replacement.
Everyone is going to die, people. The Bible says it is appointed for all men once to die.
So don’t put your hope in being frozen. It’s a distraction you don’t need.
IMHO to be awakened back to life again only means one would have to eventually DIE AGAIN. How much better would it be if someone had led her to Christ, and the minute she closed her eyes, she’d instantly be experiencing the joys of Heaven FOREVER?
Don’t they mean awakened?
That’s odd, Hillary looks so much older than 14.
Whoops! I just found out it wasn’t Hillary. When I read a terminally ill 14-year-old, frozen and hoping to wake up someday, I just assumed it was Hillary. Sorry my bad.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Not sure if I want to be frozen, but if she wants to, great.
“Let there be light..”
Two problems with that:
1) God does not exist.
2) There is no heaven.
Now prove me wrong! ;-)
Her family paid for it.
Her maternal grandparents paid the £30,000 fee for it.
I'm mighty close to 100% certain that if you ARE frozen; you ARE dead!
I’d bet that Hillary just hopes to wake up TOMORROW!
Fools and their money...
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