Will Power The Most Baffling Bequests Ludicrous Last Wishes and Daft Declarations in Final Testaments

<b>The most astonishing and extraordinary bequests and last requests found in people's wills.</b><br/><br/><i>“This will is uncommon and capricious.”</i> These words actually began a will, which shows that our final words needn’t be standard legalese but instead creatively individualistic. <i>Will Power</i> tells the riveting stories of big names and “ordinary people” who did just this.<br/><br/>There are eccentric wills, in which a mansion and its grounds are inherited by a parrot. Developers could do nothing until it died — and parrots have long lives. There are cautionary tales of family conflict, including the one-page will fought over for two decades by three generations. Want to write a parting shot? Read about the will that mocked the beneficiaries, such as the bequest that said “for my sister because she is married to a minister who (God help him) she hen pecks.” Or the contested will that ordered the deceased’s horses to be killed by a police firing squad; the bigoted will that bequeathed everything to a neo-Nazi organization; and the will that left far more money to sons than daughters, sparking a landmark gender discrimination case.<br/><br/>These stories and many more will amuse, entertain, and inform — for your consideration when you write or revise <i>your</i> will.