Old man was on his death bed
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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 check for the full $30,000.”
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what a horrible version of a great story.
where is this guy buried?
I think this isn’t as many seem to think, a retelling of the good-Samaritan story (I hope). It is I think “punning” on the fact that the dead person can never cash the cheque the lawyer gave him and so the lawyer stole the most, but smartly.
the trouble with lawyer jokes is that lawyers don’t think they are funny and nobody else thinks they are jokes!
No, this is a bad retelling of a good story. See, the first guy puts his $1000 in, the second guy puts his $1000 in, and the third guy takes the two thou and puts a check in for three. There was never any “hold this money for me” as that would be ridiculous - just a simple bet or agreement that they would each give him a certain amount on his death.