I find death funny

[gambit]

And people yell at me for it. Now before you get the wrong idea..I'm not saying the holocaust gives me chuckles or anything like that, I mean if I see a guy run over a squirrel it's just funny to me, I feel bad for the poor guy but I still find humor in it.

I saw a vid on youtube of a guy trying to help someone from being hit by a train...this someone was just blissfully unaware as she stepped over the tracks. The train flies into her and sends her body into the air, at over 30 mph. Sad indeed, but I still laughed my balls off when it happened.

It's like when you see a prank being pulled on someone, you'd feel bad (or maybe not feel anything at all depending on what hit you) but as a spectator, I get a laugh out of it.

Can humor be derived from such a sad thing as death or am I just an ? a penny for your thoughts.

[Exarch]

sound like a nervous reation to me
i had a similar thing too when i was a kid i'd laugh when i saw someone fall down or get into trouble...

[Cliomhdubh]

i find accidents funny like someone falling off a skateboard but never if they die thats just sick your a sick sick man

[Code_Knight]

I can see how you would find humor on some occasions, but the thing that always gets me when I see a person die is that everything that person has done in there life is just wiped away in one moment, I mean imagine everything you've every said, liked, did, loved, etc.. being wiped away and then someone laughs at it....hard to find funny when you think about it.

[gambit]

I can see how you would find humor on some occasions, but the thing that always gets me when I see a person die is that everything that person has done in there life is just wiped away in one moment, I mean imagine everything you've every said, liked, did, loved, etc.. being wiped away and then someone laughs at it....hard to find funny when you think about it.

Well, I get those feelings after a short amount of time but my initial reaction is just what I see happens, i.e. a person being hit be a train and shooting off like a jet. I don't immediately think "Oh god, another brave life is extinguished. I hope he/she didn't have sons or daughters, ohhh the horror!" those thoughts come eventually.

This has troubled me on the inside because I consider myself a good person. I have always been willing to help those in need and I hope I'd be able to make those self-sacrifice decisions, my death so someone can live. I just find it funny, if I saw someone die in a funny way then a child run up screaming "Mommy!" or "Daddy!" crying his/her eyes out, you bet your ass I would stop laughing and I'd feel nothing but pity, sadness..etc.

[Pontifex Maximus]

That's greatly troubling to me, why would you find the death of a fellow human being humorous? Think of the family that poor woman left behind, maybe she had children that were then raised motherless. This i snot funny, it's a tradgedy.

[Chaigidel]

yeah death is death, just is what it is, as are most things

[Code_Knight]

That makes sense to me, because I think everybody think certain things are funny until we know the real horror behind the situation, but I also laugh initially so in other words, na I don't think there is anything wrong with you.

[gambit]

That makes sense to me, because I think everybody think certain things are funny until we know the real horror behind the situation, but I also laugh initially so in other words, na I don't think there is anything wrong with you.

Glad I'm not the only one.

[Aetius]

Glad I'm not the only one.

I wish you were.

[Chaigidel]

death is funny unless you love and will miss the person who is dying

then death is a holy thing meant to be cherished.

bah scratch that its never funny, its always holy and sacred.

[The Sixth Wizard]

@Title...

Now THERE'S a thread name!

[Kennylz]

Maybe you have a social learning disability that causes you to have a lag between gut-reaction, and then actually comprehending what you just saw?

[Juvenal]

Finding death funny is an important part of the process of alienation which makes it possible for us to kill efficiently. The ability to find the death of an enemy amusing is evidence that you have successfully reclassified them as "not a person".

Normally killing is something that happens in a state of high emotion. This is not much use in military organisations where it must be done dispassionately and on-command (such organised militaries have existed since Philip II invented the Macedonian Phalanx).

The World Wars saw a flowering of propaganda intended to condition the population into believing the enemy to be not just evil, but also non-people and therefore permissable to kill. Simply applying a name to classify people starts this process off (such as Jew, Jerry, VC, Terrorist).

Since World War 2, movies have been full of set-pieces that encourage us to laugh at the death of "bad-guys" dispatched in amusing ways. It is so endemic that it actually got satirized in Austin Powers (the henchman death jokes).

It is hardly surprising that, with our lives full of the depiction of death of objectified enemies in stories or the play-death of actors, that our first reaction to the death of a stranger on film is innappropriate.

It takes empathy to appreciate a death, and this is generally discouraged in males. I often find myself drifting into objectified points-of-view, thinking of groups of people by categories, especially when they are a potential threat. Some examples: Blacks, Moslems, Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, Americans, Jews.

If you think you are immune to this thinking then just look at the vitriol on these boards between partisans of Democrats, Liberals, NeoCons etc. The smaller the difference, the greater it has to be inflated through rhetoric. It seems to me that Hillary and Barak supporters hate their candidate's opponent more than they hate Republicans.

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Finding death funny is an important part of the process of alienation which makes it possible for us to kill efficiently. The ability to find the death of an enemy amusing is evidence that you have successfully reclassified them as "not a person".

Normally killing is something that happens in a state of high emotion. This is not much use in military organisations where it must be done dispassionately and on-command (such organised militaries have existed since Philip II invented the Macedonian Phalanx).

The World Wars saw a flowering of propaganda intended to condition the population into believing the enemy to be not just evil, but also non-people and therefore permissable to kill. Simply applying a name to classify people starts this process off (such as Jew, Jerry, VC, Terrorist).

Since World War 2, movies have been full of set-pieces that encourage us to laugh at the death of "bad-guys" dispatched in amusing ways. It is so endemic that it actually got satirized in Austin Powers (the henchman death jokes).

It is hardly surprising that, with our lives full of the depiction of death of objectified enemies in stories or the play-death of actors, that our first reaction to the death of a stranger on film is innappropriate.

It takes empathy to appreciate a death, and this is generally discouraged in males. I often find myself drifting into objectified points-of-view, thinking of groups of people by categories, especially when they are a potential threat. Some examples: Blacks, Moslems, Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, Americans, Jews.

If you think you are immune to this thinking then just look at the vitriol on these boards between partisans of Democrats, Liberals, NeoCons etc. The smaller the difference, the greater it has to be inflated through rhetoric. It seems to me that Hillary and Barak supporters hate their candidate's opponent more than they hate Republicans.

Very, very good, Juvenal.

[Stalins Ghost]

It's a human reaction some people need to alleviate the pain of death, and to steel it towards coping. I was speaking to a guy who runs first aid courses a while back who attended the scene of an IRA bombing years back as a paramedic; specifically a nightclub. Basically there was less to do with saving people and more to do with clearing up body parts to put it bluntly; one of his fellow paramedics, rather than breaking down, vomiting or an number of possible reactions started playing with a pair of womens lips - identified as such due to the lipstick still on them. Often one of the ways of coping with such horrific circumstances is to temporarily ignore what death represents in order to make the best of a situation.

As for the example you gave, I guess it's still the same thing. I think we all know that death is an absolute tragedy, but sometimes the only way of trying to get by without being driven mad by depression that such things can happen is to laugh.

[boofhead]

I've never found it funny, except in circumstances where magicians or clowns or stuntmen do something completely stupid while dressed up like retards.

Would you find the recent beheading videos funny? Where a man begs for his life and has his head sawn off, gurgling and struggling?

What about the vid I've seen of a guy with his arms tied with between two 4WDs, and then they accelerate, ripping his arm off at the shoulder as a crowd praises Allah?

People in Africa tied to trees and immolated alive, all caught on vid?

Chechnyan rebels stabbing unarmed Russian conscript boys in the back of the neck as they fight for life?

All the little children of Beslan?

People jumping from the WTC towers holding hands, or on fire?

Even murderous tactical morons like some of the Islamic fighters who get wasted for trusting in Allah moreso than their hunting instincts, I don't find it funny. It's still a person, it's still death.

I didn't laugh at Saddam's hanging, either.

I can empathize enough to realize "That could be me one day, or a loved one."

*If it is nervous reaction, okay then. I used to have the same thing as a teenager running from the cops, I would be sprinting and laughing at the same time......but if you find it genuinely amusing, then I would say you suffer from some sort of mild psychopathy.

[Magic Man]

I've never found it funny, except in circumstances where magicians or clowns or stuntmen do something completely stupid while dressed up like retards.

Would you find the recent beheading videos funny? Where a man begs for his life and has his head sawn off, gurgling and struggling?

What about the vid I've seen of a guy with his arms tied with between two 4WDs, and then they accelerate, ripping his arm off at the shoulder as a crowd praises Allah?

People in Africa tied to trees and immolated alive, all caught on vid?

Chechnyan rebels stabbing unarmed Russian conscript boys in the back of the neck as they fight for life?

All the little children of Beslan?

People jumping from the WTC towers holding hands, or on fire?

Even murderous tactical morons like some of the Islamic fighters who get wasted for trusting in Allah moreso than their hunting instincts, I don't find it funny. It's still a person, it's still death.

I didn't laugh at Saddam's hanging, either.

I can empathize enough to realize "That could be me one day, or a loved one."

*If it is nervous reaction, okay then. I used to have the same thing as a teenager running from the cops, I would be sprinting and laughing at the same time......but if you find it genuinely amusing, then I would say you suffer from some sort of mild psychopathy.

Where would you get videos like that??

[boofhead]

Where would you get videos like that??

I can't say on TWC, but I've seen them all, and more. The internet is flooded with morbid videos. Seek and ye shall find.

[King Edward III]

Where would you get videos like that??

Don't ask.

I can't say on TWC, but I've seen them all, and more. The internet is flooded with morbid videos. Seek and ye shall find.

Uh-huh.