Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-28396600-20180210044931

GizmotheMogwai17 wrote: A thought hit me a few days ago while I was watching a Family Guy compilation video:Seth MacFarlane's mom died of cancer but yet he still makes fun of the disease. I personally consider that to be very depressing because if I lost my mom to some disease, the last thing I would want to do is make fun of other people who are going through the same thing I was. I just find it hard to believe that someone can still find anything funny about cancer after experiencing it firsthand and losing your beloved mother over it. Does that sound like something to joke about? Absolutely not.

​​​​​​Okay, I have a completely different stance on this now and I'm going to explain why. I recently went through the closest thing to trauma I've ever experienced. The forementioned loss of my beloved dog Rooster. The only pet I've ever had that truly felt like man's best friend. I recently noticed that one of my favorite shows Robot Chicken has a few skits making fun of dogs getting put to sleep which is the exact way Rooster died. But surprisingly enough, I'm not offended by those skits at all and still laugh really hard at them. Why is that? Well, it's because sometimes dark humor can be used as a way to cope with traumatic situations. Whenever I think of anything I associate with Rooster, my mind goes into dark territory and it makes me cry but seeing parodies of something I associate with him (in this case the way he died) makes me less likely to cry because it turns those sad images in my mind into funny ones. The darker jokes in Robot Chicken have actually helped through this situation believe it or not and I'm currently using them as a tool to help myself cope. Same thing with what I said about Seth MacFarlane. Losing your mom is an awful thing but now I can kind of understand why he still finds it funny to joke about cancer. Maybe he's using those jokes as a way to cope with the loss of his mother rather than trying to offend others who have gone through the same situation. Sometimes, dark humor isn't a trigger but rather a cure for people who get easily depressed by certain subjects.