Music mogul Simon Cowell is planning to do the world an "invaluable service" - by having his body frozen after his death so he can be brought back to life in the future.
The reality TV judge told guests at a private dinner hosted by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he planned to have his body preserved in liquid nitrogen - in the hope scientists can find a way to bring him back to life.
He said, "I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics. You pay a lot of money and you get stuck in a deep freeze once youve been declared dead.
"Medical science is bound to work out a way of bringing us back to life in the next century or so, and I want to be available when they do. I would be doing the nation an invaluable service."