A British girl who died after a terminal illness won the right to have her body frozen in an unprecedented¹ ruling, the High Court said on Friday. 

 

英国高等法院11月18日透露，一名因绝症而去世的英国女孩获得了死后冷冻遗体的准许，这是一次史无前例的裁决。

 

The 14-year-old girl from London had written to a judge explaining she wanted a chance to "live longer" after suffering from a rare form of cancer. 

 

She had researched and decided² to undergo cryonics, the process through which people's bodies are frozen in the hope they will be brought back to life with the help of future medical advancements³. 

 

"I am only 14-years-old and I don't want to die but I know I am going to die," she wrote to the judge. 

 

"I think being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up -- even in hundreds of years' time." 

 

The girl launched legal action to request that her mother, who supported the child's wishes, be the only person allowed to make decisions about the disposal of her body. 

 

Her parents are divorced and the teenager's father initially⁴ objected to his daughter's plan. 

 

Judge Peter Jackson ruled in the girl's favour in October following a private hearing at the High Court of England and Wales in London.

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