A man lying on his deathbed called his three best friends to his side.

A man lying on his deathbed called his three best friends to his side. They were 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 you, my three most trusted friends, I’ve put 50,000 dollars cash 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 as it was lowered, each man threw in his envelope as promised.

A week later, the three were having lunch and 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."

The doctor started to fidget then finally confessed “I took 30,000 dollars from my envelope because the hospital needed new equipment."

The lawyer shook his head with disgust. “You bunch of crooks! I wrote him a check for the full amount!"