Editing Cryonics (section)

===Legal issues===
Historically, people had little control over how their bodies were treated after death, as religion held jurisdiction over the matter.<ref name="trust">{{cite book |last1=Dukeminier |first1=Jesse |last2=Sitkoff |first2=Robert |date=2013 |title=Wills, Trusts, and Estates |publisher=Wolters Kluwer Law & Business in New York |page=507 |isbn=978-1-4548-2457-2}}</ref> But secular courts began to exercise jurisdiction over corpses and use discretion in carrying out deceased people's wishes.<ref name="trust" /> Most countries legally treat preserved bodies as [[deceased]] persons because of laws that forbid vitrifying someone who is medically alive.<ref name="guardian frozen in time">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/14/research.cryonics|title=Patients who are frozen in time|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=14 February 2008|access-date=12 October 2020|archive-date=12 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512202813/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/14/research.cryonics|url-status=live}}</ref> In France, cryonics is not considered a legal mode of body disposal;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leparticulier.fr/jcms/c_101664/conseil-d-etat-du-06/01/2006-n-260307-cryogenisation-interdiction |title=Conseil d'État du 06/01/2006, n° 260307: Cryogénisation – interdiction |access-date=2014-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107144511/http://www.leparticulier.fr/jcms/c_101664/conseil-d-etat-du-06/01/2006-n-260307-cryogenisation-interdiction |archive-date=2014-01-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref> only burial, cremation, and formal [[body donation]] to science are allowed, though bodies may legally be shipped to other countries for cryonic freezing.<ref>{{cite news|last=Chrisafis|first=Angelique|title=Freezer failure ends couple's hopes of life after death|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/17/france.internationalnews|access-date=8 January 2014|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=16 March 2006|archive-date=8 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108035430/http://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/mar/17/france.internationalnews |url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2015, [[British Columbia]] prohibits the sale of arrangements for cryonic body preservation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Proctor|first=Jason|title=Immortality sought through B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/immortality-sought-through-b-c-supreme-court-lawsuit-1.3153430|access-date=21 February 2016|publisher=[[CBC News]]|date=16 July 2015|archive-date=21 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221125254/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/immortality-sought-through-b-c-supreme-court-lawsuit-1.3153430|url-status=live}}</ref> In Russia, cryonics falls outside both the medical industry and the funeral services industry, making it easier than in the U.S. to get hospitals and morgues to release cryonics candidates.<ref name="ft" />

In 2016, the English [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] ruled in favor of a mother's right to seek cryopreservation of her terminally ill 14-year-old daughter, as the girl wanted, contrary to the father's wishes. The decision was made on the basis that the case represented a conventional dispute over the disposal of the girl's body, although the judge urged ministers to seek "proper regulation" for the future of cryonic preservation after the hospital raised concerns about the competence and professionalism of the team that conducted the preservation procedures.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38012267 |title=Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to preserve body |date=18 November 2016 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB |access-date=18 November 2016 |archive-date=18 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118012553/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38012267|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''[[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]] v. Richardson'', the [[Iowa Court of Appeals]] ordered the disinterment of Richardson, who was buried against his wishes, for cryopreservation.<ref name="trust" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Alcor Life Extension Foundation v. Richardson |url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20IACO%2020100512306/ALCOR%20LIFE%20EXTENSION%20FOUND.%20v.%20RICHARDSON |date=2010 |publisher=785 N.W.2d 717 |access-date=2017-01-07 |archive-date=2017-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107171724/http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20IACO%2020100512306/ALCOR%20LIFE%20EXTENSION%20FOUND.%20v.%20RICHARDSON |url-status=live}}</ref>

A detailed legal examination by Jochen Taupitz concludes that cryonic storage is legal in Germany for an indefinite period.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taupitz |first1=Jochen |last2=Fuhr |first2=Günther |last3=Zwick |first3=Anna |last4=Salkic |first4=Amina |date=2013 |title=Unterbrochenes Leben? |url=https://www.bookshop.fraunhofer.de/buch/unterbrochenes-leben/240032 |location=St. Ingbert, Germany |publisher=Fraunhofer Verlag |isbn=978-3-8396-0593-6 |access-date=2018-12-26 |archive-date=2018-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227040823/https://www.bookshop.fraunhofer.de/buch/unterbrochenes-leben/240032 |url-status=live}}</ref>