The following link is to a story, I find enthralling. The title is: Deathbed confession sends New York family on $4.5m treasure hunt. It is akin to my favorite joke. A wife was sitting for a portrait in her living room. At the moment her son walked in on the session, the artist was painting an emerald and diamond necklace at her neck on the canvas. ‘What’s with that?’ he asked. ‘You don’t own such a piece and besides you aren’t wearing it!’ “I know.’ replied the mother, ‘But if something happens to me and your dad remarries, his new wife will drive herself mad searching for it.’
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/10/deathbed-confession-new-york-family-treasure-hunt