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Working in the music industry can do very strange things to the mind. All consuming ego-mania, for example. Take Michael Jackson, who likes to celebrate the release of a new album not with a smart and simple ad campaign but by floating a 100ft statue of himself down the Thames and chooses names such as Prince Michael for his children. However, Simon Cowell, British pop's own living Godhead, looks set to outdo Wacko after unveiling plans to have his body frozen when he dies.

The "X-Factor", "Britain's Got Talent" and "American Idol" international supremo announced the dumfounding news recently during an audience with Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street, fellow judge and friend Piers Morgan has revealed. "I have decided to freeze myself when I die. You know, cryonics", he told fellow diners. "You pay a lot of money and get stuck in a deep freeze once you have 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", Cowell blundered in typically self-glorifying fashion.

This seemingly fanciful process was perhaps used most famously on Han Solo in carbonite during 1980 Star Wars movie "The Empire Strikes Back". But it does actually take place away from the big screen, with official figures suggesting around 160 people have already been frozen in liquid nitrogen at minus 200C, with a further 1,000 signed up worldwide, including 100 in England. Cowell justifies this decision by claiming his resurrection would help out the British public. "I would be doing the nation an invaluable service", he reportedly explained with true humility.

What do you think of Simon Cowell's idea? Does this mean he can never die? Surely he could do us all "an invaluable service" just by retiring?! Have your say here...