Because Quote by Julia Sweeney

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

— Pauly Shore

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that…

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's funny how death is the most certain thing in life and yet the most ignored.

— Mohamed Ismail

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

— George Bernard Shaw

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

— Philip K. Dick

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

— Allen Klein

Death is funny, when you think about it. Everybody does it, but nobody knows how, exactly how.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

— William John Locke

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people…

— Michael Sheen

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

— Margaret Cho

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with…

— Maurizio Cattelan