Pictured for the first time, the -196C cryo-tank where body of 14-year-old cancer girl is hung upside down in a £10 sleeping bag with FIVE other corpses

This is the final resting place of ‘JS’, the 14-year-old British girl who fought for the right to be frozen after her death.

Inside the 10ft high white fibre-glass vat of liquid nitrogen – pictured for the first time – her body is stored upside down, strapped to a wooden plank, wrapped in a sheet and nylon sleeping bag. 

Alongside her in the tank are five other bodies.

Yesterday I stood next to this frozen grave and shivers ran down my spine. This was the most surreal of cemeteries.

The girl – known only as ‘patient 143’ – arrived at the controversial Cryonics Institute in Clinton Township, Michigan, eight days after her death last month in Britain from a rare form of cancer.

Her ‘grave’ is stamped with the code HSSV-6-18 and stands inside a vast warehouse on a scruffy industrial estate on the outskirts of Detroit. She is the youngest of the 145 bodies stashed in 21 ‘cryostat’ tanks at minus 196 C. The bodies of 15 other Britons who believe one day they could be bought back to life are in adjoining containers.

Smaller tanks contain dogs, cats, birds, an iguana and a hamster belonging to a London woman who also plans to be frozen and stored at the institute.

The tank containing patient 143 has been sealed shut. But operations manager Andy Zawacki checks the cloudy liquid nitrogen levels daily through a peep hole.

Zawacki, a 50-year-old single man who inevitably plans to be frozen at the institute after his death, often sleeps in a side room instead of making the two-hour drive home.

He started as a part-time handyman here 30 years ago – when there was just one frozen body – and helped to design some of the first tanks. In the early days pets were put in alongside humans.