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Monday, January 27, 2025 |
Dying Man and His Lawyer  
Date: Sent Tuesday, November 16, 1999
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A dying man gathered his Lawyer, Doctor and Clergyman at his bed side and handed each of them an envelop containing $25,000 in cash. He made them each
promise that after his death and during his repose, they would place the three envelops in his coffin. He told them that he wanted to have enough
money to enjoy the next life.
A week later the man died. At the Wake, the Lawyer and Doctor and Clergyman, each concealed an envelop in the coffin and bid their old client and
friend farewell.
By chance, these three met several months later. Soon the Clergyman, feeling guilty, blurted out a confession saying that there was only $10,000 in
the envelop he placed in the coffin. He felt, rather than waste all the money, he would send it to a Mission in South America. He asked for their
forgiveness.
The Doctor, moved by the gentle Clergyman's sincerity, confessed that he too had kept some of the money for a worthy medical charity. The envelop, he
admitted, had only $8000 in it. He said, he too could not bring himself to waste the money so frivolously when it could be used to benefit
others.
By this time the Lawyer was seething with self-righteous outrage. He expressed his deep disappointment in the felonious behavior of two of his oldest
and most trusted friends. "I am the only one who kept his promise to our dying friend. I want you both to know that the envelop I placed in the coffin
contained the full amount. Indeed, my envelope contained my personal check for the entire $25,000."
Received from Lorraine.
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