A grief-stricken man threw himself across the
grave and cried bitterly. "My life, how senseless
it is! How worthless is everything about me
because you are gone. If only you hadn't died,
if only fate had not been so cruel as to take
you from this world, how different everything
would have been."

A clergyman happened by and to soothe the man he
offered a prayer. Afterward he said, "I assume the
person lying beneath this mound of earth was
someone of great importance to you."

"Importance? Indeed it was," moaned the man.

"It's my wife's first husband!"