Singer Dusty Springfield had a couple of interesting requests for when she passed away. And, just like a couple of other people on this list, they all had to do with her beloved pet. In this case, it was her pet cat, Nicholas. Dusty stipulated that Nicholas would be fed imported baby food, would have an indoor treehouse built for him and that every night Nicholas would fall asleep to one of Dusty’s albums.
Finally, she wanted the cat’s sleeping space to be lined with Dusty’s old nightgown and pillow, and she wanted him to get married to a female cat belonging to one of her friends.
Fred Baur
Most people request a coffin for when they die. Some people want to be cremated. Others want to be launched into space. But Fred Baur, the founder of Pringles, decided he didn't want his final resting place to be any of these traditional options. He did request cremation, but instead of a handsome wooden box or fancy urn, he wanted to be buried in a Pringles can.
Not, like, a big special one. Just a normal one. His family complied with the request, but what flavor do you think they chose? Hopefully, it was a classic and not something like (shivers) salt and vinegar.
William Randolph Hearst
The magazine mogul and silver miner collected one of the most legendary fortunes we've ever seen. Think about it this way: he paid to disassemble, ship to America, and reassemble an entire castle. As such, he had lots of women trying to prove that their children were Heart's children for a piece of that huge, silver pie.
Hearts wrote into his will that anyone who could prove he or she was a child of Hearst would be given a shiny dollar. Hearst died in 1951, which means that the dollar is now worth about ten dollars. So, they got that going for them, at least.
Tupac
Some members of this list left us far too soon when they still had plenty of good to offer the world. Tupac, one of the rap genre's greatest sons, left us in 1996, and while he didn't have the chance to write a true and proper will, he still snuck one of his last requests into the song “Black Jesuz”: “Cremated, last wishes n****s smoke my ashes.”
Without a doubt, it's one of the strangest requests on this list, but believe it or not, a few of his friends actually did it. They cremated Tupac, mixed his ashes with marijuana, and got their puff on. Did it...change the flavor?
Adam Yauch
Once a member of the Beastie Boys, always a member of the Beastie Boys. Adam “MCA” Yauch wanted to make sure that nobody could profit off of his image or music after he passed, which he did in 2012 from parotid cancer. While the legal validity of the will has been called into question, so far the other members of the Beastie Boys have stood by Yauch, and none of the songs have been used in advertising since his death.
Yauch and the other boys had always maintained their artistic control even while working with big labels, and it's this ideal that continues after Yauch's death.