Everything is good to make a joke. Certainly, the painfull subject of the life. Laughing make exteriorize our fears, fear of dead, fear of power (money), fear of diseases, fear of senility... Laughing help to decompress. We all need at a certain point to decompress, to calm down. There are other way like jogging, punchingballing or shouting at animals (GRR) but laughing is always easy (you don't need to be prepared) and nearly always possible. I find utterly interesting that it's in the mentally strengest works that we encounter the most jovial people. Doctors, nurses, social workers can laugh of situations they live (that are not so fun, you know). If they wouldn't, they would rapidly collapse under the weight of all the miseries they encounter dayly. Did you ever come accross web sites of doctor or nurse ? Many have a joke section...
I think it's important to joke about quite any subject. Just pay attention to the addressed people and always think twice (or preferably more than that) before saying something ugly or tasteless.
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Laughing help to decompress. We all need at a certain point to decompress, to calm down. There are other way like jogging, punchingballing or shouting at animals (GRR) but laughing is always easy (you don't need to be prepared) and nearly always possible.
I find utterly interesting that it's in the mentally strengest works that we encounter the most jovial people. Doctors, nurses, social workers can laugh of situations they live (that are not so fun, you know). If they wouldn't, they would rapidly collapse under the weight of all the miseries they encounter dayly.
Did you ever come accross web sites of doctor or nurse ? Many have a joke section...
I think it's important to joke about quite any subject. Just pay attention to the addressed people and always think twice (or preferably more than that) before saying something ugly or tasteless.