The teenage girl's instructions were direct: She didn't want to be buried, but to be frozen - with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured.

"I want to live and live longer and I think that in the future they may find a cure for my cancer and wake me up," the 14-year-old wrote to a judge before her recent death.

She said "being cryo-preserved gives me a chance to be cured and woken up - even in hundreds of years' time."