In Costa v The Public Trustee of NSW [2008] NSWCA 223, the Court of Appeal considered whether the deceased intended a suicide note to constitute his will. The Court of Appeal concluded that the deceased did intend the suicide note to be his will. Hodgson JA gave weight to the making of the document on a solemn unique occasion, that the document was a last message to his parents and that the intended recipients of the document were apparently close to the deceased: at [27]: Alan Yazbek v Ghosn Yazbek & Anor [2012] NSWSC 594 Slattery J at 99.