英国患癌女孩获准冰冻遗体 期待200年后复活
British girl's body frozen after death in UK legal first
A British girl who died after a terminal illness won the right to have her body frozen in an unprecedented 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.
这个14岁的伦敦女孩曾给一名法官写信,表示她希望在患上罕见癌症之后,有机会"活得久一些".
She had researched and decided 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 advancements.
她生前研究了人体冷冻法,并决定将它付诸实践.这项技术把人的身体冰冻起来,以期未来先进的医疗技术能使亡者重生.
"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.
"我现在才14岁,我不想死,但我知道我别无选择."她在信中写道.
"I think being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up -- even in hundreds of years' time."
"我想冷冻法能给我一个痊愈和苏醒的机会,即使可能是在几百年之后."
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.
这个女孩通过法律诉讼要求她的母亲成为唯一一个有权在她死后处置遗体的人,她的母亲支持女儿冷冻遗体的心愿.
Her parents are divorced and the teenager's father initially objected to his daughter's plan.
她的父母离异,父亲最初不同意女儿的这个想法.
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.
在伦敦的英格兰和威尔士高等法院举行了一次不开庭审理之后,十月,法官彼得•杰克逊做出了裁决,女孩如愿以偿.
The girl was too ill to attend the hearing and has since died, with her remains being taken to the United States and cryogenically frozen.
这个小姑娘当时已病得无法出席审理,死后,她的遗体被送去美国冷冻了起来.
US-based Cryonics Institute issued a statement saying that the teenager had arrived at their facility and "packed in dry ice, at 5:00 pm on the 25th of October, approximately 8 days after death," becoming its 144th patient.
美国的人体冷冻机构发出了一份声明,称女孩的遗体已被送到,且"于10月25日下午5点,死亡约8天后,以干冰冻藏."这是该机构冷冻的第144位患者.
Its minimum fee for cryopreservation is $28,000, according to its website, and The Times reported the cost to the girl's family was $46,000. The case was not reported on before Friday in keeping with the wishes of the teenager, who also asked that no one involved be identified.
根据该机构网站提供的信息,人体冷冻的最低费用是2.8万美元,而据《泰晤士报》报道,这个小女孩的家庭为此承担了4.6万美元.为了尊重女孩的愿望,此事件直到周五才见报,同时她也不希望媒体公开任何参与者的身份.
