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ing at death makes people feel safe, secure, comfort-
able, and also totally deluded.
I have found that in my seminars I can use humor,
but only if it is directed at myself, and certainly if the
humor concerning death and grief is not too honest,
not too direct, not too disturbing. Interestingly, dur-
ing breaks at my seminars, all kinds of people, hos-
pice workers, clergy, funeral directors, and cemeteri-
ans, come up to me and tell me humorous jokes and
stories about grief and death, but – oh my – if they
are told in public, or shared with the group, most ev-
erybody seems to freeze.
So humor abounds, jokes are told, people laugh,
but concerning death and grief only under certain
circumstances, which almost always mirror the ba-
sic concept of being afraid of death. This environ-
ment needs an atmosphere of being safe, secure, and
comfortable – and don’t share the death jokes you
heard during a break in a seminar. There is a dynamic
which makes something funny between two people
during a break time, but which is totally off limits be-
ing shared with a group.
I once saw a Catholic priest give a seminar to the
Association for Death Education and Counseling in
Portland, OR on humor and death. He had collected
an array of cartoons from a variety of sources and all
of them were irreverent, candid, blunt, raw but ter-
ribly honest. The audience at first was stunned into
absolute silence, and I thought to myself “How are
you going to get out of this one?” However, by the
end of the seminar most people were rolling in the
aisles, while at the same time trying not to laugh too
much in front of their colleagues. Such is the utter
power of laughing at death, and this was a group of
death professionals, the cream of the crop so to speak.
When the priest finished, the laughter had vanished
and people were judging the rashness, the boldness,
the offensiveness of the priest. He was not invited
back again, even though, or in spite of, the fact that
people were laughing till their sides hurt.
One hundred years ago sex was taboo. People were
excellent at reducing the formation of babies to small
sized bites, which they thought made the touchy sub-
ject of how every human being on the planet got here
more manageable. Hence the story of the “stork,” or
the story of the “cabbage patch.” Storks and cabbage
patches were much preferred by many people over the
honest and rational penis, ejaculation, vagina, sperm,
egg – and look what happened. Unwanted, untime-
ly, unexpected pregnancies abounded in this country.
Sex was too large a life subject to be relegated to the
stork or the cabbage patch. The same is true about
death and grief: they defy reduction, and it can’t be
done successfully.
I believe that each person on this earth is in reality
in a fight for life. Though conditions concerning this
fight differ greatly, the fight continues. Part of this
battle is the tension created by confronting a larger
than life experience such as birth or death, and the
necessary humor that we use to embrace these seri-
ous sobering issues and not become so overwhelmed
by them that we are paralyzed. At times and at certain
places humor has its place.
My son has fights in his own life, serious sobering
life issues which have taken time, love, more love and
more time. However, as serious as his challenges are,
the other night he told a story about one of his room-
mates in the place that is trying to help him and the
story involved this chap using crack cocaine. Trust me
folks, I have never ever thought cocaine was a humor-
ous subject, but by the time my son was finished tell-
ing this ridiculous story I was laughing my ass off.
It is not unusual then, based on the following anal-
Humor & Death