Morbid Humor.

[Chicago_Faucet]

For some reason, I get a really morbid kick out of these:

Undignified Deaths

An 18-year-old man drowned near Eudora, Ark., in December, when the he accidentally fell into a pit of water while attempting to drown his pit bull (which he thought was too old and docile), and the man’s father also drowned when he jumped in to save his son. (The dog survived.) And when a construction trench collapsed in New York City in December, a worker was buried up to his neck, and emergency crews were summoned, but before they could arrive, a co-worker manning a backhoe tried to dig him out, but accidentally decapitated him. [KATV-TV (Little Rock), 12-9-03] [New York Daily News, 12-16-03]

But the dog survived.

[rocking_chair]

i gotta admit i let out a laugh bark while reading about a tourist who got out of the jeep to rearrange the lion cubs “just so.” i think it was the line that stated “the lioness then served lunch to her cubs,” that caused the laugh bark.

i would imagine her husband and the other tourists in the group had a different reaction.

distance is very important in morbid humour.