A 2-Year-Old Has Become the Youngest Person Ever To Be Cryonically Frozen

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:44AM from the rest-in-peace dept.

merbs writes: After losing a long battle with brain cancer, 2-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong became the first minor ever to be cryogenically frozen. This article is the story of how a Thai girl was frozen in Bangkok and shipped to Arizona to have her brain preserved in liquid nitrogen, while medical science works on a cure. "Typically we’d move the head from the trunk of the body. We didn't know what their reaction would be from the family, the mortuary, from border officials; this has to go through a number of shipping venues, customs, the TSA and so on. To see a frozen head in a box might have raised a number of red flags. In the U.S. that’s not a big deal, but there, they may not be accustomed."

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Hasn't this been proven to be junk science? by timrod · 2015-04-16 07:51 · Score: 5, Interesting

I can remember reading several articles which stated that cryonics doesn't work because the freezing process is not perfect - it does not stop decomposition, which older frozen specimens were starting to show. Why do people still spend money on this?
Re:WHAT? by BlackPignouf · 2015-04-17 00:45 · Score: 5, Interesting

You're right, anyone in their right mind wouldn't fall for this scam.
But I suppose that parents who lost their 2 year old kid after a long and painful illness aren't exactly in their right mind.