A man lying on his deathbed called to him, his lawyer, his doctor, and his pastor.
“I am going to die tonight, “and I want to prove that when you go to heaven you can take it all with you. So to my three most trusted friends, you three of course, I am leaving 50,000 dollars in these envelopes. When I die you must come to my funeral and put the envelopes in my coffin with me. “
The man handed the three men identical envelopes.
A day later they each received news that that night the old man had died .
So each knew they must go to his funeral and fulfill his death wish.
Standing over the coffin one week later the pastor confessed, “I can’t hide what I’ve done. I took 10,000 dollars from the envelope because the church needed to be painted. “
Then as he did so the doctor also started to fidget then finally confessed “I took 30,000 dollars from my envelope because the hospital needed a new wing. “
Then the lawyer said plainly “You bunch of crooks! I wrote him a check for the full amount!”
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