Just before she died of cancer, a 14-year-old appealed to British justice to ensure her body was kept frozen until science could resuscitate him. “I believe being preserved in cryogenics gives me an opportunity for healing and waking up even in hundreds of years, ” she wrote in a letter.

The teenager sought justice to ensure that her mother, who supported her will, had complete freedom to decide the fate of her remains. The father, contrary to his daughter's wish for financial and psychological reasons, eventually gave in during the process.

Deceased in 2011, physicist Robert Attinger is considered one of the fathers of cryogenics.

Supreme Court Judge Peter Jackson ruled in favor of the young woman during an October hearing, but the result was released only last Friday. "It is an example of the new questions that science presents to the law, perhaps, more than any other, to the family law" - affirmed the magistrate in his decision. According to him, the teenager showed courage in dealing with the situation.

The young woman - who preferred to have her identity and that of her parents preserved - died a few days after learning of her favorable decision. Her body is now in a cryogenic center in the United States called the Cryonics Institute, which is kept at a temperature of -196 ° C.