The devastated parents of a toddler who died of cancer have had the two-year-old’s body cryogenically frozen in the desperate hope that some day she might be brought back to life.
Heartbroken couple Sahatorn and Nareerat Naovaratpong, from Thailand, believe in Singularitarianism, a movement defined by the belief that the creation of superintelligence is nigh and that science will one day overcome death.
Little Matheryn, nicknamed Einz, finally succumbed to an aggressive strain of brain cancer in January after enduring 12 neurosurgeries and 40 chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.
After she passed away in Bangkok, a team from Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the world’s leading cryonics organisation led by Medical Response Director, Aaron Drake and neuro-surgeon Dr. Kanshepolsky carried out a ‘field neuro-cryoprotection’. Later on, the head was removed and injected with a medical anti-freeze and the child’s body was cremated.
The company offers two options: whole body preservation (€177,000), and neuropreservation (€70,000). Because Matheryn’s body was so ravaged by treatment, her parents chose the latter.
According to its website, Alcor ‘intervenes in the dying process as soon as possible after legal death to preserve the brain as well as possible and ‘seeks to prevent loss of information within the brain that encodes memory and personal identity,’
Matheryn is the youngest human ever to be cryogenically frozen. The child’s remains will be kept in a stainless steel container filled with liquid nitrogen at -196 ËšC at an Arizona facility.
