An old man, stingy on his death-bed, required his wife to bury him with all his money, for he considered that his money was worth all the efforts of his life. His wife said: “My husband is a man who has worked a lifetime to save every penny: he loved money more than all …”
His goal, when asking for the money remaining to be left by his side in his coffin, was to have possession of it even from the beyond. Of course, his wife had sworn to him that he would have the full amount of his money close to him at all times after his death.