Court Says Man Who Wrote His Will on Frozen Food Boxes Before Killing Himself Can Have Final Wish Granted: To Donate Entire Estate to Charity

A UK court will honor the late Malcolm Chenery's will, written across two frozen food packages, and donate his entire estate, including a house and an extensive ornaments and pottery collection, to Diabetes UK.

Chenery died by suicide in 2021, but before he ended his life, he wrote that he was leaving his three-bedroom house, jewelry, an ornaments and pottery collection and more than $225,000 to Diabetes UK on the back of two packages: Young's frozen fish filets and Mr Kipling mince pies, per The Guardian.

The man's family did not contest the will and told the court diabetes ran in their family. But it was up to Judge Katherine McQuail to determine whether the unconventional will was valid, which she did.

McQuail told the court she assumed Chenery didn't want to die without having made a will, adding that she was "satisfied that the two documents should be admitted in solemn form to probate as the last will of the deceased," The Guardian reported.