Taking it with you

There was a man who had worked all of his life, had saved all of his
money in a shoe box, and was a real miser. 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 swear on a stack of bibles that when he died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him.
Well, of course, he ups and dies.
He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there in black, and a close friend was sitting next to her.
When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertaker got ready to close the casket, the wife said, "Please wait just a minute!"
She approached the casket with a shoe box she had brought with her and put it in the casket. The undertaker closed and locked the casket and rolled it away.
Her friend said, "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that
money in there with you husband, were you?"
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 all that money in the casket with him!!!!?"
"I sure did," said the wife. "I got it all together, put it into my
bank account and wrote him a check. If he can cash it, he can have it."