The Bad Habits Frank Sinatra Took To His Grave

Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998. According to his daughter Tina, the singer had big hopes of making it into the new millennium, but his heart unfortunately couldn't keep up. "Dad was determined to be a part of [the 21st century]," she wrote in her 2015 memoir, My Father's Daughter. "'How many more months?' he asked me. 'Eighteen,' I told him, rounding down a bit. 'Oh, I can do that,' he said. 'Nothin' to it.'" Unfortunately, that conversation came just five days before his death.

When he was buried a week later, his other children stuffed his pockets full of his favorite things, according to The Associated Press. His other daughter, Nancy, slipped a bottle of Jack Daniel's into his pocket, and someone else tossed in a pack of Camel cigarettes and a Zippo lighter.

But what Tina put in his pocket actually didn't represent one of his vices. She put 10 dimes in his pocket because her father always carried some around in order to be sure he could make a phone call if needed. She told CNN's Larry King that the habit came from when her brother was kidnapped in 1963. "He never wanted to get caught not able to make a phone call. He always carried 10 dimes." So to honor their father right, they made sure he was stocked with his favorite things on his way to the afterlife.