14 year old girl wins right to have body frozen

[Gladystweet]

Biggest con trick of all time. Did a little reading on cryonics a while back, not only does the patient have to hope they can can cure their disease/illness in the future, they have to rely on the future scientists being able to re-animate the body.
In many cases the organs, blood, plasma etc are removed due to damage in the freezing process and due to the massive costs of freezing, some people just have their heads stored. And yet there is no guarantee that the brain will even function again.

 

[Boss_Blue]

Feel sorry for her but feel she has just froze herself to death.

She was already dead before being frozen mate.

Thats sick.

How is freezing the girls remains any different to cremating them? Or putting them in a box and burying it in the ground?

That's exactly it. Typical teenager thinking has led to this. Her mum should be ashamed of herself for backing her. So let's say this girl is reanimated in the year 3000 (cue McFly jokes) and she has a mental breakdown due to her inability to process the world around her, and having no identifiable family to support her.

If we ever manage to develop medical science to the point that we can both cure cancer and re-animate frozen corpses and then choose to actually bring the dead back to life we will probably be fecked as a species anyway.


I have absolutely no problem with the poor girl receiving a modicum of comfort before she died. The ethics involved are based on something highly unlikely to happen within our lifetime (if ever) so why not?

 

[Donald Twain]

She was already dead before being frozen mate.


How is freezing the girls remains any different to cremating them? Or putting them in a box and burying it in the ground?


If we ever manage to develop medical science to the point that we can both cure cancer and re-animate frozen corpses and then choose to actually bring the dead back to life we will probably be fecked as a species anyway.


I have absolutely no problem with the poor girl receiving a modicum of comfort before she died. The ethics involved are based on something highly unlikely to happen within our lifetime (if ever) so why not?

Complete balderdash!

 

[Prevenger17]

The ethics involved are based on something highly unlikely to happen within our lifetime (if ever) so why not?

Ethically, our inability to come to terms with death in any sort of a balanced way is going to create an absolute clusterf**k in the future

 

[Boss_Blue]

Complete balderdash!

Exactly.

So what's the problem with indulging a dying child's wishes?

 

[Boss_Blue]

Ethically, our inability to come to terms with death in any sort of a balanced way is going to create an absolute clusterf**k in the future

Agreed.

*starts singing "IT'S THE CIRRRRRCLE OF LIFFFFEEEEE!"

 

[Donald Twain]

Exactly.

So what's the problem with indulging a dying child's wishes?

It was 37 bags of sand down the crapper! She'd have been better throwing a huge party !

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Very easy to say now, being healthy and 22 (and I do appreciate that this girl had cancer at 14 which may have been painful both physically and emotionally), but I'd like to think that if I ever receive the news that it's coming to an end then despite the emotional trauma and the great, great sadness, I will probably go quite peacefully and without the desire to come back in 200 years.

But I have no problem with her individual choice, it just is so not for me.

 

[Ashtonian]

Eh?!

Even if you have the capability of bringing a dead body back to life, least of all frozen to begin with. It can't be a straight forward task, it wouldn't be simply flicking a switch and off you go, you have to get the whole body from organs to brain to blood all working correctly when you do it.

And if they have been frozen for 100 plus years at the same time, even worse again.

It'll be perfectly easy to do when they have the technology to do it. THAT'S THE POINT.

See above. Even if they were capable, it would not be an easy thing to do. so to do that, plus cure a disease that the body carried in the first place would be nigh on bordering impossible to do all that in one shot.

 

[Boss_Blue]

It was 37 bags of sand down the crapper! She'd have been better throwing a huge party !

That's what I'd have done - used what money I had to experience as many things as possible with my family and leave some fantastic memories for them before you pass away.

Each to their own though.

 

[Bungle]

You know Zat is sat somewhere trying to work out how the age of consent works in this situation.

 

[Gladystweet]

Very easy to say now, being healthy and 22 (and I do appreciate that this girl had cancer at 14 which may have been painful both physically and emotionally), but I'd like to think that if I ever receive the news that it's coming to an end then despite the emotional trauma and the great, great sadness, I will probably go quite peacefully and without the desire to come back in 200 years.

But I have no problem with her individual choice, it just is so not for me.

That's just it though mate. It's not a choice of coming back or not coming back after death, it's throwing ridiculous money at the hope you can come back. In my humble opinion, an awful lot of people in this world are getting rich on the misplaced hopes of the dying.

 

[The Cowboy]

Even if you have the capability of bringing a dead body back to life, least of all frozen to begin with. It can't be a straight forward task, it wouldn't be simply flicking a switch and off you go, you have to get the whole body from organs to brain to blood all working correctly when you do it.

And if they have been frozen for 100 plus years at the same time, even worse again.



See above. Even if they were capable, it would not be an easy thing to do. so to do that, plus cure a disease that the body carried in the first place would be nigh on bordering impossible to do all that in one shot.

Ash, stop thinking like someone from 2016. They would only thaw her out when they have the technology to cure her cancer as easily as extracting a tooth.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I am deeply offended by this but I'm not sure why.

 

[The Cowboy]

I am deeply offended by this but I'm not sure why.

And I respect your right to be offended.