Dying teenage girl convinces judge to let her body be frozen - telling judge she wants to be brought back to life 'in hundreds of years'

The wish of a 14-year-old British girl who died of cancer, that she didn't want to be buried, but to be frozen - with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured, has been granted by a High Court Judge in the UK.

The girl who died of cancer has been cryogenically frozen after winning the landmark court case in her final days.

Before her recent death, the teenage girl who could not be named for legal reasons asked a court to intervene after her divorced parents had disagreed over her wish to be frozen. In a heartbreaking letter to the court, the girl said;

“I don’t want to die but I know I am going to...I want to live and live longer...I want to have this chance and I think that in the future they may find a cure for my cancer and wake me up."

"Being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up - even in hundreds of years' time," she said.

The girl also asked the court judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson to rule that her mother, who supported her wish to be cryogenically preserved, should be the only person allowed to make decisions about the disposal of her body.

Cryo-preserved is an unproven technique which some people believe may allow frozen bodies to be brought back to life in the future.

The High Court Judge Peter Jackson was convinced by her mournful words to grant her final wishes in what he called the first case of its kind in England - and possibly the world.

"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," the judge said.

Mr. Jackson called the case "an example of the new questions that science poses to the law."

Following the ruling on the case in October, the judge imposed restrictions on any media coverage while the girl was still alive out of respect for her stated desire for privacy but later died on October 17 in a London hospital.

Before her death, she told a relative:

“I’m dying, but I’m going to come back again in 200 years.” 

"I don't want to be buried underground," she wrote at the end of her note. "I want to have this chance. This is my wish."

Her body was frozen and taken to a storage facility in the US.