You know it is your time when...

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

I agree with the poster noting there is a difference between laughing at the fact someone dies, and laughing at the circumstances of someones death.

Chuckling to yourself, and identifying the odds around the enormously bad luck surrounding an unfortunate and tragic death is not a ticket to hell IMO.

Well said, and couldn't have said it better.

My condolences to the family of the victim.

However, I think what the OP was getting at is that a person has better odds of winning the lottery jackpot, multiple times, than to get hit and killed by a crashing helicopter. And then to have it happen in a country where you are just studying...

Originally Posted by MolsonInBothHands

My wife and I, along with our extended families, had a pretty rough year a few years back, where we had to mourn 7 separate deaths. Most of them were close family and friends, and one of them a suicide. It got to the point where laughing at death was one of the only coping mechanisms that worked anymore. I am sure some onlookers would have thought we were morbid, classless folks, but really it was just our way of dealing.

I agree with the poster noting there is a difference between laughing at the fact someone dies, and laughing at the circumstances of someones death. If there wasn't, then anyone laughing at the Darwin Awards is damned, even if the deaths are self induced. Chuckling to yourself, and identifying the odds around the enormously bad luck surrounding an unfortunate and tragic death is not a ticket to hell IMO.

Thank you.
I appreciate that there are a few people on here that understand/relate Boblobs point.
(I'm sorry for your losses)

[604flames]

My childhood house was a block away from the scene, something really must have gone wrong mechanically with the helicopter 'cause it's pretty open-air in that neighbourhood, a few trees here and there.

[Igottago]

Its about as random as anything could be...imagine it, you're walking along, going to get the mail, and boom...really, what are the odds of it? Its really, really, really bad luck.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

However, I think what the OP was getting at is that a person has better odds of winning the lottery jackpot, multiple times, than to get hit and killed by a crashing helicopter. And then to have it happen in a country where you are just studying...

Agreed

Thanks.

That is what I was getting at.

[JackJack]

Pretty tasteless I think...

[BuzzardsWife]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

I never said that they would be, and I indicated I realized that it is not something I should laugh at with the trip to hell. I still kinda chuckled when I read this, maybe I have an extraordinary warped sense of humor or something.

You seem like the type that would pull legs off of live dragonfly's, and kill small animals, all in the name of fun.

[LChoy]

Agreed. It's obviously in bad taste to laugh at the victim, but the circumstance is what one could find some dark humour in it. I have one of those Darwin award books (a gift) and it's not exactly comparable to this case since the victims in the book did it to themselves. But still, it's the circumstance, and not the victim that is amusing

[Peanut]

I get what you are saying, Boblobla... my hubby and I were watching the news last night and saw this story. Obviously it is a terrible situation and really tragic for all the families involved. But nonetheless, one of the first things I said outloud about the whole thing was "Man, when it's your time it must REALLY be your time".

A freaking helicopter came crashing out of the sky and landed on someone just walking down the sidewalk in a residential neighbourhood?! That really, really sucks. To the point where you kind of have to laugh in disbelief because it's just so unbelievably random.

[jayswin]

I still personally can't seperate someone dying and the way they died in way that allows me to laugh at the way this guy died. To me it was a tragic death, and the way he died was odd and unfortunate, but I can't link the word funny with it.

I know one poster asked us to realize that people have different ways of dealing with death (I know a cop who says that him and his co-workers have to joke around to be able to deal with death on a daily basis),as if it was justification for the way this thread started, and i hate to be judgmental, but I HIGHLY doubt that was the reason why the OP decided to start this thread and say he's "going to hell" for thinking this was funny.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife

You seem like the type that would pull legs off of live dragonfly's, and kill small animals, all in the name of fun.

ROFLMAO, You are right. I do consider myself quite sociopathic. I can see how you went from me finding humor in a one in probably about 15million chance accident to me taking pleasure in killing small animals.

Anyone have any cute kittens they don't want? Or maybe some bunnies?

[Clarkey]

You're an idiot if you think it is acceptable to make fun of this.

[FireFly]

What I want to know is whether or not he ran and if it followed him.

[macker]

Originally Posted by fotze

unless it was a mack truck that fell.

Nope....sorry.....still not funny. I am unable to make the link between a tragic death and humor. I can see laughing when you have run out of ways to grieve but the original poster was not grieving. Some things I will never understand. I don't think the EMS who had to atend to the scene were giggling over this one.....

[Kjesse]

The guy was friggin tall, nearly 7 feet! No wonder the rotor hit him!

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Delgar

The guy was friggin tall, nearly 7 feet! No wonder the rotor hit him!

uuughhh

[Locke]

I would like to express my righteous indignation....

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Locke

I would like to express my righteous indignation....

Hmmm. *googles Indignation*

Indignation: strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.

Great word.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by Iggy's Forehead

The Do-rag thread was about a chick that was yelling on a train. This one is about a young human being losing their life.

True, but this one is way more weird and random, where that one is a lot more common. Plus the do-rag one was a person committing an immoral act towards another human being while this one was pure stupid (un)luck.

Not saying either are or aren't funny, just saying obvioulsy our funny bones are tickled by different things.

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

If I could choose my death, it would be in a glorious fiery maelstrom of destruction. We all gotta die. Might as well hope for a good'er.