A ruling by a High Court judge allows a 14-year-old girl who died from a rare form of cancer in October, to be frozen and preserved in a cryonics facility in the US. The judge, Justice Peter Jackson, made clear the ruling was not about the ethics of cryonics itself but a dispute between the girl’s parents over how her body was to be treated after death. Her mother supported her daughter’s wish to be preserved; her father was against the plan.
But what exactly is cryonics? And will it ever become the norm given its current status as a legal, scientific and ethical minefield?
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