The frozen tomb of Britain's frozen teenager: Pictured for the first time, the -196C cryo-tank where 14-year-old cancer girl has been laid to rest alongside FIVE other patients

That is the ultimate resting place of 'JS', the 14-year-old British lady who fought for the best to be frozen after her demise.

Contained in the 10ft excessive white fibre-glass vat of liquid nitrogen – pictured for the primary time – her physique is saved the other way up, strapped to a wood plank, wrapped in a sheet and nylon sleeping bag. Alongside her within the tank are 5 different our bodies.

Yesterday I stood subsequent to this frozen grave and shivers ran down my backbone. This was probably the most surreal of cemeteries.

Pictured: This tank shops the British teen - recognized solely as affected person 143 - after she gained a excessive courtroom battle to be cryogenically frozen

Sufferers lie in these 10ft excessive white fibre-glass vats of liquid nitrogen on the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, USA

Pictured: A lab within the Cryonics Institute the place our bodies are ready to be frozen and positioned in particular tanks

The lady – recognized solely as 'affected person 143' – arrived on the controversial Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan, eight days after her demise final month in Britain from a uncommon type of most cancers.

Her 'grave' is stamped with the code HSSV-6-18 and stands inside an enormous warehouse on a scruffy industrial property on the outskirts of Detroit. She is the youngest of the 145 our bodies stashed in 21 'cryostat' tanks at minus 196 C. The our bodies of 15 different Britons who imagine in the future they could possibly be purchased again to life are in adjoining containers.

Smaller tanks comprise canine, cats, birds, an iguana and a hamster belonging to a London girl who additionally plans to be frozen and saved on the institute.

The tank containing affected person 143 has been sealed shut. However operations supervisor Andy Zawacki checks the cloudy liquid nitrogen ranges each day by means of a peep gap.

Zawacki, a 50-year-old single man who inevitably plans to be frozen on the institute after his demise, usually sleeps in a facet room as an alternative of creating the two-hour drive dwelling.

He began as a part-time handyman right here 30 years in the past – when there was only one frozen physique – and helped to design a few of the first tanks. Within the early days pets have been put in alongside people.

The Cryonics Institute has been slammed by the ladies' father who has accused its scientists of 'promoting false hope' to terminally unwell individuals and their households

Pictured: Columns of submitting cupboards preserve sufferers' very important private paperwork safely locked away on the Cryonics Institute in Michigan, USA

As soon as in these tanks sufferers are then saved the other way up, strapped to a wood plank, wrapped in a sheet and nylon sleeping bag

Pictured: A theatre on the Cryonics Institute, displaying a desk the place workers put together the sufferers 

'We often have six human our bodies to a tank however one solely has 5 as a result of there's a 32st man in it and he takes up extra room,' mentioned Mr Zawacki.

'Folks ask if they are often frozen alongside their family members however we are able to't try this as a result of as soon as a tank is sealed it's sealed.'

Canine and cats are handled precisely like people, with their our bodies being slowly cooled down in a mortuary-like 'perfusion room' earlier than they're put into the tanks.

Mr Zawacki shouldn't be allowed to speak about affected person 143 and couldn't say whether or not her household had visited the premises, which features a room of submitting cupboards stuffed with pictures, DVDs and keepsakes belonging to the individuals frozen there.

Meticulous data – locked in different submitting cupboards – are used to establish each frozen physique on the premises.

Prices can begin at $35,000 to be cryogenically frozen and pictured, is tools on the Cryonics Institute in Michigan

Pictured: Creative photos on the wall of the Cryonics Institute present adages by British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke

Pictured: A mannequin exhibits how tools on the Cryonics Institute works (left) and the storing tanks line up within the facility's warehouse (proper)

For what's technically an enormous freezer, the concrete-floored constructing is surprisingly heat. A small home humidifier hums close to 'affected person 143' and a wall-mounted electrical heater is switched on to excessive.

A small part of the primary warehouse is given over to the workplace kitchen – there's a daily fridge freezer, microwave, sink and low pot.

Some households make yearly pilgrimages or ship flowers on anniversaries. These are positioned within the 'memorial room' the place a big TV exhibits footage of the departed on a relentless loop.

There are three plastic crops, two bouquets of false flower and a faux log hearth within the nook.

It was in all probability the one room within the warehouse that felt like a funeral parlour.

'They're benefiting from susceptible individuals': Father of cryogenically-frozen teenager claims Michigan agency which promised to protect her physique offered his daughter false hope 

The lady's father - who has stayed nameless - has accused the Cryonics Institute of 'promoting false hope' (inventory photograph)

When the daddy of a cryogenically frozen British teenager first discovered of her determined want for a 'second probability' at life, he sought a glimmer of hope from the US agency which might protect her physique.

His daughter, 14 and dying of most cancers, was on the centre of a bitter authorized row between her dad and mom over her want to be put in a deep freeze after her demise till docs may be capable to carry her again to life, so he spoke to representatives of the Cryonics Institute in Detroit, Michigan, the place the lady's physique is now saved.

'I imagine they're promoting false hope to those that are frightened of dying – benefiting from susceptible individuals,' he instructed The Mail on Sunday in his first full interview for the reason that extraordinary courtroom case got here to gentle.

'Once I requested if there was even a one in 1,000,000 probability of my daughter being introduced again to life, they might not say there was.'

If by some miracle cryopreserved our bodies could possibly be introduced again to life sooner or later, he mentioned, docs would additionally should treatment his daughter's physique of most cancers.

Talking in his North London solicitors' workplace, the grey-haired, father – in his 40s however trying older – raised his voice with anger on the agency he accuses of cashing in on her desperation.

'I believe it might be doubly unimaginable to each carry her again from the lifeless and treatment her most cancers, and corporations mustn't maintain out some false hope,' he mentioned.

'I believe it might be doubly unimaginable to each carry her again from the lifeless and treatment her most cancers, and firms mustn't maintain out some false hope,' he mentioned.

The lady, who died of a uncommon kind of most cancers in October, wrote a poignant letter to a Excessive Courtroom choose asking for her physique to be saved in liquid nitrogen after her demise, it emerged on Friday.

She wrote: 'I'm solely 14 and I don't need to die however I do know I'm going to. Being cryopreserved offers me a probability to be cured and woken up, even in tons of of years' time.'

Mr Justice Jackson granted her dying want and the lady was 'cryopreserved' after her demise on October 17 in a process costing her maternal grandparents £37,000.

In a deeply emotional interview, her father:

• Doubted whether or not the agency pledging to freeze her for tons of of years would the truth is accomplish that; 

• Claimed he was denied direct contact along with his daughter for years by her mom; l Mentioned he tried to take care of a relationship by sending her pictures of the 2 of them collectively; 

• Urged individuals to donate to most cancers charities after a relative's demise, relatively than spend it on cryopreservation 'which appears to haven't any foundation in science'.

The daddy – who suffers from lymphoma (a type of blood most cancers) himself – and at one stage was unknowingly being handled in the identical London hospital as his daughter – says he solely found his daughter had most cancers from a distant relative residing overseas. She was identified late final yr.

Plea: The teenage lady wrote a transferring letter to the Excessive Courtroom explaining the the explanation why she needed to be cryogenically frozen 

As he struggled with whether or not to grant his daughter's want in her ultimate months, he spoke to representatives from the Cryonics Institute, 'however they might not reply how cryopreservation would work in any logical means'. 

And he requested: 'In 100 or 200 years' time, if there are not any relations round, who's going to make positive this agency continues to be preserving her physique, as they promised?' The lady is recognized solely as JS.

Her father final noticed her in 2007, when she was 5, after contact was stopped following an acrimonious divorce from her mom. He burdened he had made quite a few courtroom purposes to take care of entry however claimed the lady's mom had opposed all of them.

'When direct contact was refused, I attempted to take care of a relationship by sending presents, letters and playing cards by means of social providers,' he mentioned.

'In some, I put in footage of us collectively when she was aged 4 to 5. I additionally put in an image of her half-sister, from my second marriage, and mentioned: "She'd like to meet you." I attempted to construct bridges  – I beloved her – and I needed to see her however couldn't.'

His different daughter has not been instructed about what occurred to JS's physique in a bid to guard her, in response to a supply. He tried to see JS as she battled her sickness however she refused, which he described as 'extremely upsetting'.

Later, he solely found his daughter needed to be cryopreserved after studying it in courtroom paperwork, he mentioned.

Though he stays strongly opposed, he ultimately agreed to again his daughter's authorized bid for cryopreservation. 'If this was her final want, then I needed to respect that,' he mentioned.

Course of: The lady may have been handled inside minutes of demise - flown to America after which slowly frozen to an ultra-low temperature within the hope, in the future, she'll be woken up once more

After the choose visited JS in hospital, when he was 'moved by the valiant means' she was dealing with demise, she referred to as him 'Hero Mr Jackson'. Her father had tried to set the situation, in return for his approval, that he be allowed to see her physique after demise. However the lady refused and the courtroom upheld her determination.

Final evening, on the workplace of solicitors Kilic & Kilic, he tearfully defined he merely needed the probability to say goodbye. 'I imagine it's each father's proper to see their baby for the final time,' he mentioned. 'I had not seen her since she was 5.'

JS's household are Muslim however her father – a former cab driver who moved to Britain within the 1980s – insisted faith performed no half in his opposition to cryopreservation.

Talking by means of an interpreter, he mentioned: 'I'm not spiritual and I don't imagine within the afterlife.' 

He added: 'Not one of the hospital docs have been in favour of her being cryopreserved – none ofthem assume it's going to ever work.  

'I'm no skilled, however I'm a rationalist, and I put my belief in their medical opinion. 'If there may be any good that may come of my daughter's demise, and this interview, it's that funds are raised for Most cancers Analysis UK, so we are able to ultimately treatment most cancers.'

'To me, that's way more logical than spending cash on cryopreserving those that have died.' 

The Mail on Sunday contacted the lawyer for JS's mom yesterday however acquired no reply. Dennis Kowalski, president ofthe Cryonics Institute,  denied it was benefiting from anybody or benefiting from individuals's fears. 

He mentioned the institute was 'a nonprofit organisation' including that they gave 'no ensures' it might ever work, however mentioned even the smallest probability of returning to life was higher than the choice 'which is zero'. 

• The Mail on Sunday has made a donation to Most cancers Analysis UK on the daddy's behalf in return for this interview. He acquired no cost.

Extra reporting: Figen Gunes 

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