To You I Leave Flopsy Who Will

Your will   is written to help your loved ones orchestrate the disposal of your estate when you’ve gone. Whilst yours may be simple, here are a few with some quirks to them.

Will’s The Last Laugh
It is sensible to make a will. Most of us realize this, but actually doing it seems such a inconvenience.  How much thought went in these “wills with a difference”?

Even the legendary magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini, couldn’t trick death. Having died from a burst appendix, one of his greatest shocks came with the will reading. His magicians supplys went to his former partner Theodore, who was in addition his brother. His conjuring powers failed on the next term – his bountiful library of books on magic and the occult. He left these to the American Society for Psychical Research, but with the term that their research officer J Malcolm Bird, who additionally was the editor of their journal, stood down. They rejected the offer the compilation passed to the Library of Congress.

The trained rabbits that he utilised in his tricks abandoned their hats and were divided around the children of friends. Continuing the wierd style, his left his spouse 10 words, which were a secret code, with the avowal that he would employ these words to reach her from the afterlife. Each year for ten years, following his death, she dutifully held séances, but Houdini never made contact.

Kozmic Blues and rock singer Janis Lyn Joplin had a brief but notable history. She wrote several rock classics and four albums, including “To Love Somebody” and “Me and Bobby McGee”. After years of substance abuse, she died from an overdose, aged 27. Two days prior to her death in 1970 her wills      the sum of 2,500 dollars to fund an all night party at her favourite bar so that her friends could “get blasted after I’m gone.” It must have been some celebration – that was a sizable amount of cash back in 1970.

We’ve all heard of people that, unexpectedly, leave all their money to the cats’ home, much to the dismay of their relatives. Many family rows start when a will is read. As long as the person who made the will is of sound mind and not under duress, there is often little that can be done to object to such a decision.

Quirks apart, if you pass on without leaving a will, the people who you would wish to inherit wont necessarily be the ones that do so. You might have a partner of many years, but if you’re not married or in a legal partnership, he or she won’t receive your money, heedless of your intentions and promises. This can be problematic when it’s not clearly stated and can cause terrible financial consequences.

The up to date way to get your will under way is to go online and locate a free wills      . However basic your intentions are, it’s advisable to have the professionals to write it for you and you can be sure that you’re leaving things exactly how you would wish them to be.