14-year-old wins right to cryogenic freezing

[MissJatti]

14 year old who died from cancer won the right to be cryogenically frozen 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/18/teenage-girls-wish-for-preservation-after-death-agreed-to-by-court

[Eon]

Good luck girl, might never happen.

[Vox]

The background to this story is terribly sad. At the heart of it lies a feud between the mother and father which did not play out too well and questions were raised in respects to the procedures employed by the charitable cryopreservation organisation that was tasked with preparing the body for airlift to the US.

I do hope however that she will get her wish in the end. Godspeed brave girl.

[Wondering Soul]

Hope to see her in 200 years +joy

[White Unicorn]

7 hours ago, Vox said:

The background to this story is terribly sad. At the heart of it lies a feud between the mother and father which did not play out too well and questions were raised in respects to the procedures employed by the charitable cryopreservation organisation that was tasked with preparing the body for airlift to the US.

I do hope however that she will get her wish in the end. Godspeed brave girl.

I'm glad she knew her last wish would be fulfilled, just as others can choose cremation or burial requests. 

[pallidin]

I have heard somewhere(?) that cryogenic preservation is optimized if the creature is still alive during the initial freezing process.

Something having to do with special cellular "antifreeze" being able to get into all critical cells (which is supposedly not entirely possible if dead as the dead cells won't properly suck in the special cellular antifreeze)

Anyway, the problem is that, besides the science, legally this amounts to murder prior to preservation since the human must be alive during the initial process, and is likely a horrendously painful procedure.

I was hoping that the court, in her case, allowed for this, but apparently only allowed the additional processes after actual death which totally negates the aspect of optimum cryogenic preservation.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 19, 2016 by pallidin

[Still Waters]

It gave her hope, that's the main thing.