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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I take it by the boldness of your letters, there are some comments of mine you don’t mind too much. 8^)
If in a hundred years the little girl is brought back to life, will her soul return or will she continue her life without one?
I saw a Sci Fi program once which dealt with this question. When the wealthy businessman's body was returned to life, it was without a soul and the man became a cold blooded killer without a conscience........
And I take it from the boldness of your statements that you just might be inclined to go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in.
Some religions teach this.
The bible though; mentions something about sleeping.
Always have been, except for a brief time in the 80s, but we won’t talk about that.
I hear ya!
Do any of these nuts comprehend what would have to happen for a dead body to be alive after this ridiculous freezing procedure?
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