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Since when are cancer jokes funny?
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Wench says,
I agree. Cancer is never funny. But having lost so many of my family members to various forms of it, I understand why family members will sometimes laugh about it. They have to laugh. It's the only way to get through the pain of losing their loved ones. I don't think anyone who has been touched by it thinks it's a joke. But laughter keeps us sane and sometimes it's all we have.accidentaltourist says,
I agree. I am the one who is heard giggling at funerals, after all. The trend I was observing, that of painting every illness in the almost festive drama of "the big C", knowing full well that drama is all it is, kind of had a sobering effect on me....rather like making fun of having a physical handicap.Wench says,
Sort of the way my husband calls his extremely overweight father 'fat boy'. His dad used to be over 800 pounds and is down to 300. No one else in the world can call him that without serious consequence, but Nathaniel loves his dad and has been with him through the worst of it. Laughing is the only way to keep things from seeming unbearable. I know what you mean though, I cringe every time I hear someone dismissively say, "Oh, it's probably cancer."accidentaltourist says,
Yes...that's it exactly.H2point0 says,
People do this with many diseases.I don't know that I'm bothered.
But I'll say "that's not Bipolar."
Or I'll correct about heart disease.
The impulse to laugh is protection.
Nobody wants to feel vulnerable - open.