Punchline

What if death is a punchline?..

All that fear and suffering just taking ourselves too seriously?

And death not seriously enough?

"No funny. Discriminatory against seniors. Actually dead, unfortunately, can happen during any stage of your life for multiple reasons we all know."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin
Ben was probably laughing when he wrote those words."

"Its called humor. Sometimes its a little dark lol."

"I'm the director of a senior center. Everyone there would think this is hilarious."

"As a senior citizen I also found the humor in it, we lie saying, oh, that's okay I am not afraid of death, but for sure we be running if we hear it counting. lol!"

"What if you die and never know you ever were?
What would that actually ruin?"

"If death is the punchline then is the joke the fact that we are born with a survival instinct that makes us desperately want to avoid death?"

"Yes. We laugh because we must."

"If I am not laughing when death comes, I never got the joke."