Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some people may find laughing at death inappropriate, but humor can help us deal with grief in surprising ways. Some people may ...

How does the omnipresence of social media in Gen Z's lives impact their view on death? Gen Z is the first generation to have grown up wholly in the digital era. The omnipresence of social media in Gen ...

Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, begins six years after the Civil War’s end. Libby, a Union sympathizer and spinster who runs a boardinghouse in the South, writes ...

Any rational person with even one molecule of compassion would agree that this is something you don’t ask anyone who’s dying. It’s a no-brainer: Humor doesn’t belong in any death-related scenario or ...

Dealing with death is difficult, be it the death of a close relative or thoughts of your own mortality. Dying is an inevitable outcome of being human, but knowing that does not make most people happy.

Death stalks the pages of Salman Rushdie’s latest book, The Eleventh Hour, and it’s there in the first story in this collection. “They were eighty-one years old,” he writes. “If old age was thought of ...

If death can be a funny sort of philosophical thing when you think about it - and it can, just ask author Simon Critchley - would that mean it gets funnier the more you think about it? And if you were ...

Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a sense of humor. It gives (temporary) relief from the ...

With the passing of Norman Lear at age 101, we need to reassess how humor has been gutted in America by the unelected, woke PC police. Lear's obit should have said, "Norman Lear was preceded in death ...