Are death jokes ever really funny?

[Amelia G]

I've been watching sort of a lot of morbid television the last day or two. I'm not even sure how many fictional funerals I've watched in the past 24 hours. I'm generally uncomfortable with death, but I have a kind of dark sense of humor. So I've been really entertained, for example, by Six Feet Under's morbid humor, despite the sad grieving scenes which trouble me.

Are death jokes ever really funny?

[Bikerpunk]

Humour is an evolutionary mechanism that helps us cope with stress.
That's exactly what it is - it helps us deal with things that don't make sense or are largely uncomfortable.

Any kind of humour that is truly funny must make us uncomfortable somehow.

So yeah. Depends though what you're laughing at... the person or the situation.

[Bondage Clown]

Death is funnier than shit. Especially since it is Norm McDonald. ROFL. J/K

I figure if you can't laugh at death, during a funeral, a wedding, a birth, Barmitzfah, the holocaust, a microwave oven, nuclear explosion...

I mean what is the point of living.. everything sucks.. but everything also has a small amount of humor to it. find that.. hang on to it, and everyone would be stronger.

[Dusk]

just remember "your owie is funny, but my owie hurts", because this is how most people think.

[jonny.illuminati]

not really a fan of death jokes

i find that people that have never killed or lost a lot of friends think that death is funnier than it actually is...

everyone eventually dies...

[Mr Karl]

death is boring.............how people react to death can sometimes be funny

[soma_stardust]

death is fucking hilarious.
i have to laugh at death and make friends, or i'll drive myself nuts. i have many death issues that i'm trying to get over.
everyone dies. (not everyone poops, but if they don't, they probably die.) might as well laugh about it.
i have a dark sense of humour, and a dark sense of self, really.
so yes.
Death talks IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and is really very personable.

[HeadlessBill]

death is fucking hilarious.
i have to laugh at death and make friends, or i'll drive myself nuts. i have many death issues that i'm trying to get over.
everyone dies. (not everyone poops, but if they don't, they probably die.) might as well laugh about it.
i have a dark sense of humour, and a dark sense of self, really.
so yes.
Death talks IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS and is really very personable.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Though, I like Death's granddaughter, too. But I wouldn't make fun of her.

[soma_stardust]

i want to *be* Susan Sto-Helit.

[Rockwulf]

I think the highest form of humor is dead-baby jokes.

[DoctorZ]

I thought it was dead-baby-in-a-blender... Hm...

[soma_stardust]

dead puppies... dead puppies... dead puppies aren't much fun....

[Rockwulf]

I thought it was dead-baby-in-a-blender... Hm...

That's just one subcategory.

[Blitz]

here's a death joke:

how did they know princess diana never had
dandruff?







cause they found her "head and shoulders" in
the glove compartment!!!!!!!!

[Ajax Knucklebones]

When I was 12 my grandfather died. I was crushed because he was my favorite relative. I balled and balled my eyes out. His viewing was the first I'd ever been to and seeing him dead in the box even made it harder for me to get a hold of my broken emotions.

At one point during the viewing, my brother and I went to sit in a room away from the coffin and all the sadness. Out of the blue and I don't remember how we started talking about it, but we thought wouldn't it be funny to place a fake poop on my dead grandfather's head before anyone came for the next viewing. We just kept on thinking how fuckin' funny it would be to see everybodies expression as they walked in to the viewing and saw this dead man with a big piece of shit on his head. Now instead of crying because of the pain, we were crying because we were laughing so hard thinking about it.

I think dead jokes and of such nature is just a way how to get over the sadness of actual death. It's a defense mechanism for coping.

[Head Wreck]

depends on the context of a joke

[darkamor]

Are death jokes ever really funny?

YES - when they're not done in bad taste at the wrong time such as Monty Python "Bring out your dead" / "But I'm not dead yet" moment (British humor, grew up with it and still love it)

NO - I've heard enough Natalie Wood is the only wood that doesn't float humor that it's poor taste and boring (move on to something more relevant such as d level celebs dying to get on reality t.v.)


Six Feet Under actually could bring a smile to someone who's coping with a death in the family (laugh it off, crying about it doesn't so shite - trust me I've been a widow for quite some time now)

~(^)~

[One Eyed Cat]

Absolutely. I think they are funny and necessary when coping with it. I hope when I deanimate my loved ones will find humor where they felt loss. I know goddamn well some old friends and loved ones of mine are getting wedgies from me in the afterlife (after a few dead people cocktails of course)

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