Instead, he left explicit instructions for his burial — he wanted to be near his adopted mother, who died in 2009 — and the disposition of his house, which he wanted to donate to an animal shelter.
In fact, people can say repeatedly that they want their organs donated, but once they die — if potential donors have not left explicit legal instruction — spouses, guardians or legal representatives can ignore that decision.
Though Baťa died in a plane crash in Switzerland just months after buying the land in Essex, he had left explicit instructions as to how the project should unfold.
Anaya had asked to be billeted with a family with children her age; instead she was allocated to a childless couple, both of whom were 18 years old and who mostly ignored her for the duration of her stay, although they did leave explicit instructions to clean out their rabbit hutch.
Today the justices ruled in their favor, finding that families have no right to stop life support for conscious patients who are not terminally ill, and who have not left explicit instructions allowing them to do so or formally appointed anyone to make health care decisions in the event of incapacity.
Even when facing the seemingly endless bounty of a new continent, George Washington -- perhaps because he was a farmer and had a deep connection to the land -- left explicit instructions not to cut down live trees to build fences at Mount Vernon.
The magnitude and apparent complexity of the brain's connectivity have left explicit networks largely unexplored.
Richard's colleague is leaving sexually explicit notes up in his window.
She had a living will and left me explicit instructions as to what to do when she died.
The spectacle that confronts them day after day – crime, poverty, corruption, disease and the memory of slavery – leaves an explicit or coded mark on their work.
