Morbid humor as an outlet/catharsis

I don't know about any of you, but I find that sometimes it actually helps for me to engage in morbid humor. Not just dark humor, but the stuff that used to be written off as harmless nonsense when my father was in college during the 1950s. He attended City College Engineering School in New York. In those days, they were so tough on their students that one could earn a grade of F+. They had a saying, "you have to know something to fail." Needless to say, it was a stressful environment, and the students' emotional reactions to this were reflected in humorous clips in the school's newspaper.

My father told me that the paper would often end with the announcement that the last meeting of the suicide club was to take place at midnight, at the top of the clock tower.

I don't know why, but even as someone who thinks about ending my life often, I get a laugh out of jokes like that. Maybe it's related to my using humor as a child to cope with the realities of the Holocaust. When you're raised in a Jewish family, you start watching stock footage at a very young age. It can be traumatic, to say the least. To this day, the Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck reels I like the most are the ones making fun of Hitler. But more to the point of my obsession with morbid humor, my favorite non-Hitler related Bugs and Daffy reel includes such gems as, "Well, I say he DOES have to shoot me now! So, shoot me now! Mnyeh!"

Come to think of it, I can sit through hours of Wile E Coyote getting mutilated repeatedly and falling off of cliffs as he tries to catch the Roadrunner.

So that's my tip. Watch more Bugs Bunny. If nothing else, you'll laugh so hard, you'll grab a cold chocolate milk and forget about stuff long enough to stop yourself from doing something you might not live to regret.

Dark humor is like food. Not everyone gets it.

Dark humour, it's what I live for. Ironic I know.

If it wasn't for dark humor, I'd probably be dead already. It's been a coping mechanism for a long time.

Gallows humour, that way of pissing in the face of fuckery isn't it?

Yes, and I even make morbid jokes about myself. My therapist once asked if I was homicidal, I said only towards myself. I found it funny but she didn't. lol

Lol, that's like me saying, the only time I'm not suicidal is when I stare at myself in the mirror. At that point I get all homicidal.

Also, like the last attempt I nearly made. I kind of pulled out because if it didn't work out, then chances are I could die of the shame and embarrassment.

I'd probably fail at that, and it wouldn't surprise me

Lol that's funny.

I used to love Bugs Bunny and he was very subversive!

I admit to having it bad on gallows humor but watching the human race and some of the dumbass things that people do how can a person avoid having it? I am sympathetic to those that don't know better like a child or an adult that may not have all their faculties, but the adults often college educated that are just going to do as they please and nobody can stop them they aren't going to find a kindly ear from me. The recent spate of bison attacks are an example. It must take a genius to see an animal weighing a ton, can run three times faster than them but they just have to get up close and personal to get pictures to post up online...what could possibly go wrong?

I love a lot of old tv shows that today would be called dark and never be made today stuff like Allo Allo about France under German occupation even back in the day some found it controversial today it would never be made at all just because of the setting

Darwinism in its purest distillation.

The scariest thing about it is, many of these people vote.



RW: Dark humor - G. Carlin is my hero, that should tell you my take on things 😁

I fear for the younger generation there world will be so disinfected it will be unreal there and its coming at the world from both sides its crazy

My response is that of several standup comedians. "It's time to take the warning labels off everything and let stupidity run its course."

Funny you should mention Darwinism. In my neck of the woods, we refer to those who are old enough to know better as Darwin Award Candidates. (aka Walmart Shoppers)

lol have you seen the website People of Walmart?

So true and a fear of mine. They vote, get married, have kids and drive cars and other things. Just like last week and July 4th. Booze and bombs are not a wise combination but how many decide to shoot mortar fireworks shells from their head. Darwin and The Reaper just sit patiently, watching and waiting...

I had a neighbor once who would sit with the fireworks between his legs and set them off!