Fortunately, he had left very clear instructions about his wishes for care.
Lawyers for Dyson will claim Conze failed to follow reasonable instructions about his conduct and the focus of his attention.
They gave her explicit instructions about his food, how he had to be watched carefully, and might even have to sleep with her if he whined.
Though Merrill left instructions in his will for the use of the first and second floors of the house, (those floors are occupied by commercial and residential tenants, respectively), he did not leave specific instructions about his own rooms on the top two floors.
There were times we laughed together, for example, when I read my father's instructions about his casket: "Do not spend a lot of money on a casket as everyone will forget about it as soon as I'm in the ground". My father, as you might have guessed, was not big on extravagance.
When he died in 1951, he left an indenture with specific instructions about how his collection was to be handled -- giving the power to make new board appointments to Lincoln University, the oldest black college in America.
Before a single parsley frond was dipped in salt water, David Abergel, an organizer, insisted we speak to the rabbi, with some explicit instructions about respecting his orthodoxy: "You can ask the rabbi questions, but you're not allowed to write or take pictures on a holiday," Mr. Abergel said.
Their squabbling was at the heart of the first BBC series, which followed the 38-year-old comedian as he tried – at his mother's instruction – to learn about his family and heritage in Sri Lanka (or, as she put it: "Stop being a coconut").
Towards the end of his life, Dad had given us instructions about not prolonging his life unnecessarily – we had power of attorney.
H talks about his instruction for Bar Mitzvah, two nights a week learning Hebrew.
