The remains of a 14-year-old London girl whose dying wish was to be cryogenically preserved with the hope of someday being brought back to life are being kept at the Michigan-based Cryonics Institute.

“It was her wish to be cryopreserved, and her wish was granted,” Andy Zawacki, facility manager at the Cryonics Institute in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township, said Monday. It is one of three full-service cryonics facilities in the world. The others are in Arizona and Russia.

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“The idea of freezing whole bodies and bringing them back to life has basically zero scientific support at this point,” said Hank Greely, a professor and director of the Stanford University Center for Law and the Biosciences.

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“If you think about this as a health intervention, I think it’s ethically problematic,” Greely said. “If you think about it as just another form of a funeral or an embalming or undertaking, if the person knows what they’re getting into, if they’re not lied to about the chances of success and they have the money to spend, we let people waste money in all sorts of ways.”