Funny Ha Ha or Funny Peculiar?

[talktooloose]

People talk about so and so's "tragic death".

What's the alternative? Comic death?

Comments

[yoella.livejournal.com]

maybe graceful?

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

So, not fatal face plants while skateboarding...

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

I think it's supposed to intimate that they died of unnatural causes.

Thank you, I'll be your killer of observational comedy tonday!

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Well, I know I'll meet him Tonday
Maybe Monday, maybe not.

Also

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Intimation is the sneerest form of flatulence.

Re: Also

[mentalmakeup.livejournal.com]

I hate you with the white hot fire of a thousand suns.

Re: Also

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

I know! "Flatulence" is so cacophonic (or perhaps "cacaphonic"). I would have preferred "flannery" but that would have made, hey! no sense at all.

[mofic.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think there is such a thing as a good death. "Tragic death" to me usually means that the person was very young and/or that the death was unexpected. Death as the natural end to life with plenty of time to prepare is, I think, the antonym of tragic death.

[briseur.livejournal.com]

les masques sont parreilles si tu les renverses. Me I've always hoped that I'll have a sense of humour about it by the time it gets here. Also, Auden weighed in on this ditinction between deaths more and less tragic:
As the poets have mournfully sung,
Death takes the innocent young,
The rolling in money,
The screamingly funny,
And those who are very well-hung.