Attached to a clock, it tolls for the time. Attached to a church, it rings for the dead. In a coffin, you make this ring with a strong hope someone is listening. What is this four-letter word that you hope does not toll for you?

You get them when you create well. You give them when someone else creates well. In science fiction stories they are often what you spend. Someone who steals a singular one is no friend.

First, you throw away the outside and cook the inside then you eat the outside and throw away the inside

A body of water that proves that isolation is safety.

I could make butter, money, or life, Or be locked away if I cause too much strife Though the plainest form grows on a tree, There are many meanings of me