An Australian mother faced with every parent’s worst nightmare—the passing of a child—is now turning to a science fiction-like hope for a second chance at the life of her son: cryogenic preservation.
Actress Clare McCann is desperately trying to raise $195,000 to freeze the body of her 13–year-old son, Atreyu, who tragically took his own life last Friday (May 23). According to the associated fundraiser page, the boy had been the target of “horrific bullying at his public school.”
While, to date, no one has been successfully revived after being cryogenically frozen, the hope of science advancing to the point where it is possible in the future has become McCann’s only refuge from her grief—and time is running out.
