5. Angel Pantoja: wanted to be standing at his own funeral
A funeral home in Puerto Rico used a special embalming treatment to keep the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for a three-day wake in his mother’s San Juan home. Donning a New York Yankees cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in the living room. “Angel wanted to be happy, standing,” told his brother Carlos to the “El Nuevo Dia” newspaper.
The owner of the Marin Funeral Home, Damaris Marin, told The Associated Press that Pantoja’s mother had asked him to fulfill her dead son’s last wish. Pantoja was found dead underneath a bridge in San Juan and buried 3 days later. The police were investigating.
4. Helmsley: left $12 million to Trouble (her dog)
Some may refer to Leona Helmsley as the ‘Queen of Mean’, but I think her dog would disagree. Helmsley died at the age of 87 and her will was made public. In it, she provided quite nicely for her dog Trouble, creating a $12 million trust to ensure that the Maltese lives out the rest of her life in the luxury she is no doubt accustomed to. The trust will be overseen by her brother, Alvin Rosenthal, to whom she left $10 million. When Trouble’s days on Earth are over, she is to be buried next to her mistress in the $1.4 million mausoleum in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Westchester County, New York. Talk about a pampered pooch. She was less generous to her late son Jay Panzirer’s children, cutting Craig and Meegan Panzire out completely for “reasons which are known to them” and leaving a relatively paltry $5 million each to David and Walter Panzirer.
The billionaire’s grandchildren contested her will.
3. Bratt: left 330,000 pounds with the condition his wife would smoke 5 cigars a day
Samuel Bratt used his will simply to get even. His wife never allowed him to smoke his favorite cigars. When he died in 1960, the embittered Bratt returned the favor. He left her £330,000. To get it, however, she had to smoke five cigars a day.
2. 9-year-old Jayla: wanted to get married before dying
Every little girl dreams about her wedding day, complete with visions of a big beautiful white dress and, of course, the perfect man. But 9-year-old Jayla Cooper doesn’t have a lifetime to wait for Mr. Right. The Southlake, TX, girl has been battling leukemia for two years, a battle that could end in just a matter of weeks. But what Jayla does have is a groom. He’s her best friend, Jose Griggs, a fellow patient at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. “He is very cute,” Jayla giggled, “And I love him.”
Jayla and Jose recently tied the knot to fulfill her final wish: Getting married in a beautiful wedding, surrounded by family and friends. From the flowers to the banquet hall, donations poured in to give a North Texas bride the wedding of her dreams.
1. T M Zink: donated his Money for the creation of a womanless library
Iowa attorney T.M. Zink, who died in 1930, had such a strong disdain for women that he wished to use his savings to establish a library that would allow no works by female authors or artists, and would prohibit female patrons. In his will, Zink stipulated that his $35,000 be placed in a trust for 75 years, and the accumulated sum be used to build the Zink Womanless Library, where every entrance would bear a sign with the words “No Women Allowed.” Zink’s daughter, who was left $5 in the same will, challenged it successfully, and the female-free learning zone was never built.
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