Mom Attempting to Elevate $195K to ‘Cryogenically Protect’ Late Son, 13

An actress in Australia is making an attempt to lift round $195,000 to “cryogenically protect” her teenage son’s physique after he died by suicide.

Clare McCann, who can be a filmmaker and journalist, defined that her 13-year-old son, Atreyu McCann, had taken his personal life on Friday, Might 23, following “months of horrific bullying at his public faculty” in New South Wales, per a GoFundMe web page.

She defined on the web page that she wants to lift the cash inside the subsequent seven days, “or the chance for him to dwell once more can be misplaced without end.”

“We solely have one probability left to cryogenically protect his physique inside the subsequent 7 days. If we miss this window, we lose the possibility for any future revival that science could provide. That is about hope and justice. Refusing to let my son’s story finish in silence,” McCann stated on the GoFundMe web page, which was arrange by a buddy.

Cryopreservation sees the physique frozen within the hope that in the future it could be attainable to revive it, per the BBC.

McCann instructed news.com.au, “All I really want to say is how a lot I really want these funds to provide my son what he wished.”

“About six or seven years in the past, we began speaking in regards to the afterlife and heaven and I talked to him just a little about cryogenics, and he instructed me he wish to try this,” she continued to the outlet.

“Over time we talked about that that’s what we’d wish to do collectively, by no means separate. He deserves a second probability to dwell the life he wished,” McCann shared, per the publication.

She stated on the GoFundMe web page that she had “begged the varsity, the Division of Schooling, and Youngsters’s Companies to intervene” amid the bullying.

“I’ve medical data, psychologist experiences, a proper PTSD analysis from his physician, and emails proving I raised the alarm repeatedly. However nothing was carried out. Nobody stepped in. And now, my lovely boy is gone,” McCann wrote on the web page.

The actress stated that the cash will go towards “fast cryopreservation and authorized transportation,” “required medical and authorized providers for the process,” and a belief in Atreyu’s identify “to guard his legacy.”

Any remaining funds will go towards anti-bullying training and reform, help for different households going by way of an analogous scenario, and authorized motion “towards the establishments that failed him,” the web page acknowledged.

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“As my worst nightmare has come to life my baby’s has been stolen. It breaks my coronary heart past what phrases can evaluate to share that in a second of insufferable ache Atreyu took his personal life,” McCann added in an Instagram put up whereas sharing hyperlinks to the GoFundMe web page.

The GoFundMe web page had raised simply over $2,700 as of Monday, Might 26. PEOPLE has reached out to McCann for a tribute.

PEOPLE additionally contacted Australia’s Division of Schooling for a remark, however did not instantly hear again.

In case you or somebody you understand is contemplating suicide, please contact the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), textual content “STRENGTH” to the Disaster Textual content Line at 741-741 or go to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.