A 14-year-old girl who died of cancer has been cryogenically frozen in the hope that she can be "woken up" and cured in the future after winning a landmark court case in her final days. The girl's divorced parents had disagreed over whether her wish to be frozen should be followed, so the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked a High Court judge to intervene. Shortly before her death in a London hospital on October 17, in what is believed to be a unique case, the judge granted JS her wish. Cryonics UK, the non-profit organisation that prepared the girl's body for transport to the US, agreed with the judge. Her mother agreed that being cryogenically frozen represented a chance to resume her life once science had found a cure for her cancer.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 18, 2016 04:17 UTC