I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.
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There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry.
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
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