An old
man was on his deathbed. He wanted badly to take all his money with
him. He called his priest, his doctor and his lawyer to his
bedside.
"Here's $500,000 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 that he had only put $400,000
into the envelope because he needed $100,000 for a new roof for his
church.
"Well, since we're
confiding in each other," said the doctor, "I only put
$300,000 in the envelope because we needed a new machine at the
hospital which cost $200,000."
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, it held my personal
check for the full $500,000."
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