Posted on Nov 18, 2016
14-year-old girl who died of cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen
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Excerpt: The judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, ruled that nothing about the case should be reported while she was alive because media coverage would distress her. She was too ill to attend the court hearing but the judge visited her in hospital.
Jackson wrote: “I was moved by the valiant way in which she was facing her predicament. It is no surprise that this application is the only one of its kind to have come before the courts in this country, and probably anywhere else. It is an example of the new questions that science poses to the law, perhaps most of all to family law … No other parent has ever been put in [the] position [of JS’s father].”
He added: “A dispute about a parent being able to see his child after death would be momentous enough on its own if the case did not also raise the issue of cryonic preservation.”
Jackson wrote: “I was moved by the valiant way in which she was facing her predicament. It is no surprise that this application is the only one of its kind to have come before the courts in this country, and probably anywhere else. It is an example of the new questions that science poses to the law, perhaps most of all to family law … No other parent has ever been put in [the] position [of JS’s father].”
He added: “A dispute about a parent being able to see his child after death would be momentous enough on its own if the case did not also raise the issue of cryonic preservation.”
14-year-old girl who died of cancer wins right to be cryogenically frozen
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That is interesting SPC Britanny *Winnie* Balthaser on many points - first that the plaintiff's case was sealed from problem view out of concern she would be "distressed."
Unfortunately the judge is wrong when he stated "No other parent has ever been put in [the] position [of JS’s father]" because there are tens of millions of parents who have been in the unenviable position of watching as their child dies of cancer. Other people have had their bodies cryogenically frozen.
The issues are financial in that the cryogenically frozen body needs to be kept frozen for the decades to centuries to conceivably millennia until:
1. a reliable cure is discovered and workable; and
2. a reliable way to thaw cryogenically frozen body and actually restore life.
Background: In March 2003, my heart was chemically shut down and I was chilled to 34 degrees while my heart was taken off line so it could be operated on during mitral valve repair [my father went through a more extensive procedure in his heart transplant in 1992]. My blood flow had been continued through machines until my heart was electrically restarted. Since then I have had wires attached to my heart, and abnormal sinus wave function - non -dangerous. It took five months for my body to get from 34% to a normal temperature.
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Unfortunately the judge is wrong when he stated "No other parent has ever been put in [the] position [of JS’s father]" because there are tens of millions of parents who have been in the unenviable position of watching as their child dies of cancer. Other people have had their bodies cryogenically frozen.
The issues are financial in that the cryogenically frozen body needs to be kept frozen for the decades to centuries to conceivably millennia until:
1. a reliable cure is discovered and workable; and
2. a reliable way to thaw cryogenically frozen body and actually restore life.
Background: In March 2003, my heart was chemically shut down and I was chilled to 34 degrees while my heart was taken off line so it could be operated on during mitral valve repair [my father went through a more extensive procedure in his heart transplant in 1992]. My blood flow had been continued through machines until my heart was electrically restarted. Since then I have had wires attached to my heart, and abnormal sinus wave function - non -dangerous. It took five months for my body to get from 34% to a normal temperature.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Capt Christopher Mueller Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) SMSgt Minister Gerald A. Thomas SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SGT John " Mac " McConnell SGT Robert George SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM
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LTC Stephen F.
SN Greg Wright - Cryogenically freezing is not anathema t me my friend. It just seems like a fools dream. Freezing would need to occur before death [which would be murder] to have a reasonable chance of restoring the frozen to life.
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SN Greg Wright
LTC Stephen F. - Thanks for replying. Fortunately, I don't see anyone alive volunteering before they're dead lol.
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interesting ... I hope they can find the problem in the future... and fix it and her...
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