A British schoolwoman has been cryogenically frozen after she died from cancer, in the hopes that she may be "woken up" and cured within the future.

The 14-yr-old requested a High Courtroom judge to Cryobiology rule that her body could possibly be preserved after her dad and mom disagreed about her wishes.

She wrote to the courtroom: "I feel being cryo-preserved gives me an opportunity to be cured and woken up, even in hundreds of years’ time. I don’t need to be buried underneathground.

"I wish to live and live longer and I believe that sooner or later they may find a treatment for my cancer and wake me up."

Mr Justice Peter Jackson dominated that the woman’s mother, who supported her want to be frozen, should have the only right to resolve what occurred to her daughter’s body.

The case was the first of its sort and has been hailed as a landmark ruling for cryogenics. However how does the process work?

What's cryogenics?

Cryogenic freezing is the process of preserving a dead body with liquid nitrogen.

Advocates believe that scientists will sooner or later work out learn how to warm the our bodies up and convey them back to life, by which era doctors could be able to remedy cancer and different diseases that are untreatable today.

At the moment, cryogenic freezing can only occur as soon as somebody has been declared legally dead.

How does cryogenic freezing work?

Freezing needs to start as quickly as attainable after the affected person dies to forestall injury to the brain.

First, the body is cooled in an ice bathtub to gradually reduce its temperature. In some cases CPR will also be administered to stop mind cells from dying.

Doctors will then drain the body of all blood and exchange it with an anti-freeze fluid designed to stop harmful ice crystals forming.

The body is then packed in ice and switchred to a facility in the US or Russia.

On arrival it is put into an arctic sleeping bag and cooled by nitrogen fuel to -110C over a number of hours.

Through the subsequent weeks, the body is slowly frozen until it is at a temperature of -196C.

It's then suspended in liquid nitrogen and switchred right into a "affected person care bay", the place it will stay indefinitely till science advances.

Cryogenics amenities also provide the choice of neurocryopreservation – the place the head is eliminated and frozen without the body.

Scientists theorise that in the future a new body may very well be cloned or regenerated for the head to be connected to.

Does cryogenic freezing work? Has it been accomplished?

Those that join cry-preservation do so hoping that science will in the future deliver them back to life.

At the moment, medical doctors don't have the knowledge required to reanimate a frozen corpse.

The Cryonics Institute says that canine and monkeys have been revived after having their blood replaced with anti-freeze and cooled to below 0C, but not to full cryonic temperatures.

Nematode worms have been preserved at the full -196C and revived, and in 2005 a rabbit kidney was frozen at -135C and efficiently transplanted to an animal.

It is not uncommon for human embryos to be frozen to be used in IVF procedures.

How a lot does cryogenic freezing value?

The schoolwoman’s household paid round £37,000 for her body to be preserved, said Mr Justice Jackson.

The minimal payment for the Cryonics Institute in the US is $28,000 (£22,5000) plus a one-off membership charge of $1,250.

The place can or not it's achieved?

There are solely three organisations on the planet that provide cryogenic freezing: the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, US – where the schoolgirl is now preserved, Alcor in Arizona, US and KrioRus in Russia.