Some people's dying wishes get honoured because their existences transcend personhood as we understand it. Pharaohs, Queens, Khans, all these people were more God than human. So, they could trust that their words would be followed after their deaths.

The rest of us shouldn't leave it to chance. Or to our highly unreliable family members.

So, we took some of history's most elaborate final wishes and contrasted them with a simple truth: if you want your very ordinary human wishes carried out, best you make them official in a will.