Black Humour

canigraduate · Apr 12, 2015

I'm far from feeling like I'm holier than thou. I see there's a problem with me not being a part of the heard. Grow a set and maybe you'll realize that I can have a opinion that totally opposite from yours without feeling it's directed towards you.

You make me laugh. Thank you. "Grow a set?" Bwahahahaha! I already have a set, of boobs. I don't need any more testosterone in my life, thank you very much. I have realized you are one of those few people who don't have a sense of humor, or, at the best, have a very narrow tolerance of humor. My grandfather didn't either, but he didn't get mad at the people who did. He just didn't get the jokes. Didn't make him any less as a person, it just made it hard for us to tell jokes and cut up around him.

I am sorry you can't join in with our fun, but I wish you'd go away and stop trying to ruin it.

Back to the OP.

I always have a giggle fit when I am doing post-mortem care and the gases shift. I can't help it. It cracks me up when the farts come out. Sometimes I have to leave the room and pretend I am sick, depending on who's helping me.

I was working on a Med-Surg unit and was helping another nurse with post-mortem care one day, when a family member walked by as their phone rang. The ring tone was highly apropos, "In The Arms Of The Angels" by Sarah McLachlan. Now, I wouldn't normally laugh at that, but the other nurse started singing it, way off-key. I nearly peed myself trying not to laugh loud. It set her off, and we both had to go hide in the break room for a while, so nobody would come after us for laughing over a deceased patient.

Red Kryptonite · Apr 12, 2015

I respectfully suggest you remove the stick that is implanted in your colon.

Bwa ha haaaa....I was thinking exactly the same thing!

I work in hospice so postmortem care is something I do a lot. One night while preparing a body for mortuary pickup, I realized I was whistling "Life Goes On" by the Beatles. When I realized it, I felt bad for a second and then busted up. (I was in the room alone.)

My dad, the former cop, thought it was great when I told him and said that gallows humor is necessary in several professions.

I'd be willing to bet we sickos who laugh a little at this stuff burn out at a noticeably lower rate than those who don't/can't. :up:

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Apr 12, 2015

I always have a giggle fit when I am doing post-mortem care and the gases shift. I can't help it. It cracks me up when the farts come out. Sometimes I have to leave the room and pretend I am sick, depending on who's helping me.
I was working on a Med-Surg unit and was helping another nurse with post-mortem care one day, when a family member walked by as their phone rang. The ring tone was highly apropos, "In The Arms Of The Angels" by Sarah McLachlan. Now, I wouldn't normally laugh at that, but the other nurse started singing it, way off-key. I nearly peed myself trying not to laugh loud. It set her off, and we both had to go hide in the break room for a while, so nobody would come after us for laughing over a deceased patient.

This reminds me of the time I had to take care of my first deceased patient in LTC.

I was a newbie fresh out of nursing school, first job & it was the first time I had seen a dead body. So the resident passed on the 6-2 shift & then I was waiting for the funeral home to pick up the body. They get there & I was suppose to help transfer. Well I was so shocked because the resident was alive the day before & now dead. So they funeral home guys want me to transfer, my answer? "You want me to TOUCH her?!"

Smooth, right? HAHAHAH! Yeah, I know. The guys transferred the body, I held the air mattress. I have gotten over it since then. First job/death jitters.

Twinmom06, ASN, APN · Apr 12, 2015

Poop - I realize that this is about death but dark humor rises in me over poop. We had a patient on tube feeds - literally looked like a murder scene - he outlined himself on the bed in liquid feces. The more I wiped the harder I laughed. (in my head of course), A few giggles snuck out when the guards that were with him (he was a prisoner and unresponsive anyway) started making comments.

oh well...poop happens. To the uptight poster - sorry you find our humor so distasteful. personally if I outlined myself with poop I would hope someone would find it funny.

OnlinePersona, LPN · Apr 12, 2015

I'm far from feeling like I'm holier than thou. I see there's a problem with me not being a part of the heard. Grow a set and maybe you'll realize that I can have a opinion that totally opposite from yours without feeling it's directed towards you.

someone doesnt know how to take a joke :cautious:

that someone is you.

Brown-Hughes RN · Apr 12, 2015

someone doesnt know how to take a joke
that someone is you.

Sorry but I do know how to take you!! ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ wasn't that funny? ðŸ˜³

Alisonisayoshi, LVN · Apr 12, 2015

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I laughed really really hard at this.
Then I felt awful for laughing so hard....

Normally I don't have any kind of stick stuck anywhere, and I enjoy dark humor but this, this ANGERS me to no end. I'm a type 1 diabetic and:

A) because of insulin I can eat whatever I'd like in moderation, candy, a cookie, pasta, whatever.

B) sugar doesn't actually cause diabetes, it may contribute to type 2, but it's not a direct cause.

C) nobody, even someone who doesn't have the best control, asks to lose limbs.

D) these jokes are rarely made about other diseases, but it's totally cool with the bulk of our population to make fun of MY DISEASE, because of the misconception that diabetics give it to themselves.

E) the idea that we give it to ourselves contributes to folks not wanting to donate to things like JDRF or DRI. Which sucks when I count on research and contributions to that research to perhaps, maybe, one day, cure me. You know, before I lose my feet, or eyes, or kidneys, or heart function.

Finally, it's just not funny when it's about you, keep that in mind the next time you share stuff like this.

Editorial Team / Admin · Apr 12, 2015

Please stay on topic w/o making this discussion a one-on-one debate. It derails the thread, members report numerous times, staff have to eat Tums.

Thank you for staying on topic.

patientlytrying · Apr 12, 2015

That sort of humour that seems completely funny when shared with your colleagues, you know though if an outsider was to hear it they would be completely scandalised/offended
Its happened before when I've worked with palliative patients, this queen song keeps running through my head.
We've had two palliative patients who passed today and I've had to keep giving myself some mental slaps every time I start humming it.
Anyone else find they have a black sense of humour?

A coworker would sing this in the elevator every single time we would go downstairs to get the Cadillac after someone passed. I think sometimes you have to have an off sense of humor in healthcare. To this day, I always think of her when I hear it!

SmilingBluEyes · Apr 12, 2015

When working in the hospital, after tough nights, dayshift would come on for report and ask how the patients were.

My reply:

"In bed, NOT dead". Deadpan face.

SmilingBluEyes · Apr 12, 2015

Anyone else notice, bad things happen in 3's often? (superstitious stuff). Well in dialysis, our patients do die. Many are in the stages, but hang on for a long time.

But when 1 dies, we wait for number 2......then everyone asks or tries to guess who "number 3" will be.

It's not that we are irreverent. It's just that it seems to keep happening that way. It's always in "3s".

patientlytrying · Apr 12, 2015

Anyone else notice, bad things happen in 3's often? (superstitious stuff). Well in dialysis, our patients do die. Many are in the stages, but hang on for a long time.
But when 1 dies, we wait for number 2......then everyone asks or tries to guess who "number 3" will be.
It's not that we are irreverent. It's just that it seems to keep happening that way. It's always in "3s".

YES! Noticed that both when I worked at the hospital and in LTC.