The remains of a 14-year-old London girl whose dying wish was to be cryogenically preserved with the hope of someday being brought back to life are being kept at a US-based cryonics institute.
"It was her wish to be cryopreserved, and her wish was granted," said Andy Zawacki, facility manager at the Cryonics Institute inDetroit . It is one of three full-service cryonics facilities in the world. The others are in Arizona and Russia.
The unidentified girl's remains were brought to the facility last month after a British High Court judge granted her wish. She died in mid-October after telling the court she hoped she could be woken after a cure for her cancer is found, even if that's "in hundreds of years' time."
The matter ultimately was resolved in the Family Division of the court because the girl was a minor whose divorced parents did not agree on what should be done with her body. The girls' father, who initially opposed the procedure that offered no evidence of success, eventually softened his stance as his daughter's death neared and after she expressed her wishes in a heartfelt letter.
Cryonics Institute was incorporated in 1976 and preserved its first patient in 1977. It now has 145 human patients and 125 pet patients. It has more 600 "contracted members" who "signed up to be frozen upon death."
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