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TheFifthScallop

Who am I kidding? I’m a whore.
Amateur Fighter
Nov 15, 2015
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According to one's personal POV.
Gallows humor is a defense mechanism just as a sense of humor is associated with an interrupted one.
I use humor a lot to push down the sad. When my grandma was dying the week of my 22nd birthday, I really didn’t know how to handle it. My whole family met up in southern Oregon to see her off, and when my family was in the living room crying about it, the only emotion I could give was laughter. “Of course she has to die the week of my birthday. Fucking, Loretta. Always stealing my thunder”. I have family members who still won’t talk to me after that. For fuck sake. Loretta would have thought it was funny.
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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I use humor a lot to push down the sad. When my grandma was dying the week of my 22nd birthday, I really didn’t know how to handle it. My whole family met up in southern Oregon to see her off, and when my family was in the living room crying about it, the only emotion I could give was laughter. “Of course she has to die the week of my birthday. Fucking, Loretta. Always stealing my thunder”. I have family members who still won’t talk to me after that. For fuck sake. Loretta would have thought it was funny.
I've always had to stifle because my sense of humor isn't for everybody. But I'm pretty broad when it comes to humor, it's part of how I approach things.

In a tough situation, I'll judge everybody else in the room to be too anxious or upset, and I'll be the one who isn't losing my shit. Or I'll crack a joke nobody likes. Fuck em.

Then there are people who have odd nervous reactions to unpleasantness, laughter at a funeral say.

I've been calculating which of my friends will be able to handle my gallows humor when the time comes for it...
 

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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26,589

nuraknu

savage
Jul 20, 2016
6,246
10,756
I use humor a lot to push down the sad. When my grandma was dying the week of my 22nd birthday, I really didn’t know how to handle it. My whole family met up in southern Oregon to see her off, and when my family was in the living room crying about it, the only emotion I could give was laughter. “Of course she has to die the week of my birthday. Fucking, Loretta. Always stealing my thunder”. I have family members who still won’t talk to me after that. For fuck sake. Loretta would have thought it was funny.
I am the same as you - I make jokes at funerals and whenever really tough or upsetting things are happening. But my family usually forgives me eventually and is only really permanently mad at me for never having my act together enough to send thank-you cards for anything (giving someone a gift shouldn't be assigning homework!!).

I am much better online and always censoring myself - ever since I made the Brock Lesnar astronaut joke (which I didn't think was that bad) and the pr guy from ufc at the time got mad at me.

I don't think your joke was bad for a funeral tbh - I'm surprised anyone in your family even remembers it.