An elderly man was at home, dying in bed. He smelled the aroma of his
favorite chocolate chip cookies baking. He wanted one last cookie before he
died.

He fell out of bed, crawled to the landing, rolled down the stairs, and
crawled into the kitchen where his wife was busily baking cookies. With waning
strength he crawled to the table and was just barely able to lift his withered
arm to the cookie sheet.

As he grasped a warm, moist, chocolate chip cookie, his favorite kind, his
wife suddenly whacked his hand with a spatula.

“Why?” he whispered. “Why did you do that?”

“They’re for the funeral.”