There was a man who had worked all of his life, had saved all of his
money, and was a real miser when it came to his money. Just before he
died, he said to his wife, "When I die, I want you to take all my money
and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the
afterlife with me."
And so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he
died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him. Well, he
died.
He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there in black,
and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the
ceremony,
just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife
said, "Wait just a minute!" She had a box with her, she came over with
the box and put it in the casket.
Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away.
So, her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all
that money in there with your husband?"
The loyal wife replied," Listen, I'm a Christian, I can't go back on my
word. I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket
with him."
"You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!!!!?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my
account and wrote him a check. If he can cash it, he can spend it."
The Obedient Wife, 
That was fantastic! Glad the wife had the brains for doing the smart thing yet keeping her conscience clear. Who can accuse her of breaking her promise? Any miser husband like that - a self-centred man, who had no thoughts of how his poor widow was going to survive - deserved it. Good tale. Food for thought.
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