Years after becoming a pop culture staple due to his role as a judge on American Idol, Simon Cowell is still booked and busy. Considering how frequently Cowell's work is discussed, it's also a novelty whenever we get to hear him talk about his personal life. Yet I wasn't expect to learn Cowell once planned to preserve himself by having his body frozen. He put the kibosh on that, though, when he learned they could “chop your head off.”
It's definitely not uncommon for people to be cryogenically frozen in sci-fi movies and TV shows, though real life is another story There was, of course, the bizarre fact about Walt Disney supposedly being frozen after he died (which turned out to be just a wild rumor). Simon Cowell spoke about his own experience with freezing while talking with The New York Times interview. I'm honestly not sure what surprised me more with this interview -- Cowell's initial desire to be frozen or the reason he backed out:
