Simon Cowell has so much to offer society, he’s decided to have himself cryogenically frozen so he can share his virtues with future generations.

The X Factor judge reportedly revealed his plans to invest in cryonics during dinner with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street.

Simon, 49, announced at the dinner: “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 you’ve 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.”

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I think Simon was kidding, but obviously it’s not unheard of. Other human tissues such as semen, blood and embryos are also stored this way. Unless Simon meant that by offering his body up to the scientific experiment of cryogenics is the ‘invaluable service’?

My dad got talking about living forever when we read The Curious Case [of Benjamin Button] at school, and commented that you’d never want to live forever as a geriatric. You’d just get more run down and old and probably not have the best quality of life. He says he only wants to be defrosted when they can reverse the aging process. Looking now at Wiki’s information about the Alcor Life Extension Foundation it says many people just have their brain stored, anticipating a new body in the future. I’ve always thought that when you die, it’s usually for a reason (for example, your heart wears out and stops) and if they could bring you back to life, wouldn’t you just die again shortly? Wouldn’t it be better to get frozen before your body actually stops, before you die?

The reason I say this is, Simon Cowell is known for being somewhat vain, so get frozen now. You’re in your prime, you have all your own teeth, no use getting old and wasting all that youth – because by the time we can bring you back to life, I’m sure we’ll be able to stop the aging process Simon. And you get to keep your own body.

Gordon Brown is said to have joked at the same gathering “I am not sure me coming back from the dead would be quite as popular as Simon. In fact, there may be a public campaign to stop me being frozen!” He’s probably right, politicians are rarely loved in their time.

Simon Cowell is shown with Terry Seymour at Elton John’s AIDS Foundation Oscar party on 2/22/09. Does this mean they’re back together? Credit: WENN