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Thread #118593 Message #2589084
Posted By: katlaughing
15-Mar-09 - 12:20 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Gallows Humour-laughing at death/disease
Subject: RE: Folklore: Gallows Humour-laughing at death/disease
Joe, you are making a lot of assumptions about the rest of us there. Also, I didn't hear anyone say anything about "respect" when it came to Jade Goody, just showing some compassion toward a fellow human bean who is literally dying as we speak. What is so wrong about that?
I happen to be very comfortable with people who are dying, in hospice, at home, and/or folks in convalescence homes. I've had some tell me they want me there, with my dulcimer, when they die..they want me to "play them over" and I am honoured. I also am someone to whom they can speak of all manner of things, the hard things which they may be reluctant to burden their families with. There is a place for humour with them, when appropriate, but I would not make jokes of people I don't know who are dying.