TEEN WINS RIGHT TO TRY RETURNING FROM THE DEAD

A 14-year-old girl who died of cancer has been cryogenically frozen in the hope that she can be “woken up” and cured in the future after winning a landmark court case in her final days.

The girl's divorced parents had disagreed over whether her wish to be frozen should be followed, so the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, asked a High Court judge to intervene.

The girl, known as JS, asked Justice Peter Jackson to rule that her mother, who supported her desire to be cryogenically preserved, should be the only person allowed to make decisions about her body.

Shortly before her death in a London hospital on Oct 17, the judge granted JS her wish.