Comment by Waterluvian

> 1. Everyone jokes about death

I spent most of my life perceiving comedy to be one of the less serious art forms. “You can make a beloved film but won’t win a Best Picture award” kind of less serious.

But I read sections like this one, and I experience the use of comedy for community-building and healing and discussing politics safely. And I’m growing a belief that it’s the highest, purest, most honest form of communication we have as a species.

We want to make death less taboo, but what we really need is to make joking about death less taboo.