This is why you need to upholster your chairs. Survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA. Death sucks. That's why most people are afraid of it. Some people die of old age or gradually succumb to one of a number of illnesses. When death comes, the lucky among us will go out peacefully with dignity. Some of us might go out fighting the good fight, saving the lives of some unfortunate person whom our consciences cannot ignore and force us to help.
They'll all die "good deaths" and in some cases, heroic deaths , and in Video Games , they'll be quite the spectacle.
And then there's this. This trope is about the people who die in ways that are, to put it completely bluntly, ridiculous and embarrassing. The manner of their demise are the things you read about on websites dedicated to the Darwin Awards.
The kind of death that ends up the punchline of a joke told by a standup comedian who specializes in Black Comedy. The humor in this is, of course, subjective β while we might find the way a person joined the Choir Invisible to be humorous and worth a laugh, to the person's family it is a tragedy.
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The bereaved naturally think you cruel and inhuman for laughing at such a tragedy. It is a tragedy But that doesn't stop it from being funny when you think about it and, well, in some cases, even grieving friends and relatives might readily admit that it is Actually Pretty Funny. If it's played seriously, it's often a source of Bathos. Sometimes overlaps with Cruel and Unusual Death when the death is not just embarrassing, it's also horrific. Often overlaps with Death by Falling Over.
