Sometimes it’s important to know when to let go. But one woman is trying to avoid the acceptance stage of grief by instead asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to cryogenically freeze her dead son.
Clare McCann lost her son to suicide after years of bullying pushed the 13-year-old too far. He took his own life, unable to cope with the harassment of fellow students. The tragic loss of his life is not being taken well by his mother.
She claims that if she can have her son cryogenically frozen, she may one day be able to see him live again. For this, she will need around $200k and eventually the technology to do it. The GoFundMe she has up and running is currently at around $3,500.
“We only have one chance left to cryogenically preserve his body within the next 7 days. If we miss this window, we lose the chance for any future revival that science may offer. This is about hope and justice. Refusing to let my son’s story end in silence,” she says on the page.
At present, there is no technology that can bring someone back from the dead, cryogenically frozen or not, so her son is out of luck. I am not sure what she is hoping will happen, but honestly, it all sounds like a desperate clutching of straws from a grieving mother.
Can She Actually Cryogenically Freeze And Revive Her Son?
There was a rumor floating around when I was younger about Walt Disney cryogenically freezing himself. The legend told that he had frozen his body and was waiting for the technology to revive him. This turned out not to be true, sadly. Maybe there could have been hope for Disney to produce something original again.
What this woman wants for her son is called Cryonics, and it’s more common than you would think. Currently, around 250 people have preserved their bodies, post-mortem, in the hope of one day being revived.
Clare McCann, knee deep in her denial stage of grief, is hoping to cryogenically freeze her son and add him to that list. Losing a child must be unimaginably hard, but in this case, therapy would be a better use of her money.