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

The most astonishing and extraordinary bequests and last requests found in people's wills.

“This will is uncommon and capricious.” As beginnings go, this opening line shows how our final words don’t need to be written in standard legalese but can instead be creative and individualistic. Will Power tells the stories of big names and ordinary people writing their last wills and testaments who did just that.

There’s the eccentric will that left a mansion and its grounds to a parrot. Developers ...