An old man was on his death bed, and wanted to be buried with
his money. He called his priest, his doctor and his lawyer to his
bedside. "Here's $30,000 cash to be held by each of you. I trust
you to put this in my coffin when I die so I can take all my money
with me."
At the funeral, each man put an envelope in the coffin. Riding away
in a limousine, the priest suddenly broke into tears and confessed,
"I only put $20,000 into the envelope because I needed $10,000 to
repair the roof of the church."
"Well, since we're confiding in each other," said the doctor, "I
only put $10,000 in the envelope because we needed a new X-ray
machine for the pediatrics ward at the hospital which cost
$20,000."
The lawyer was aghast. "I'm ashamed of both of you," he exclaimed.
"I want it known that when I put my envelope in that coffin, I
enclosed a cheque for the full $30,000."
