E for Egypt: The Royal Afterlife

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“WHAT??? That’s what Mr. Buford’s will says?” I cried.
“Yep, that’s what it says. Final wishes. He wants to be buried with a dozen beer bottles.” Neil, the will executor, reiterated. “Samuel Adams. Utopias. He wants the finest in there with him!”
I rolled my eyes at the proposition. It was one thing for the Pharaohs of Egypt to have stocked their tombs with items that they wanted to take to their afterlife, but for someone to emulate it in the 21st century was beyond my understanding. 

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“Gonna be a long day tomorrow. I figured you might need a drink,” Neil remarked as he walked into my office that evening and pulled out two long stemmed Utopia bottles from his bag.
You wouldn’t!” I gasped. 
” Well … Why waste good beer? Plus, he just wanted the finest bottles in there. No mention of ‘em being full!” he said, flashing a toothy grin at me. 
“You’re so mean!”
“Hey! You want some or not!” he said, dangling the exquisite bottle like bait.
It took me less than a second to fish it out of his grasp.

Pharaohs and Kings of Egypt believed they could take their wealth into the afterworld and hence would emphatically state their wishes to be buried along with it. http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/equip.htm
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