{"id":1552,"date":"2023-09-11T11:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/verein\/achtung-humor\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T17:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:44:26","slug":"warning-humour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/well-worth-seeing\/warning-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Humour!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Can we make fun of death? Does humour have a place in taking care of the suffering, the dying and in accompanied self-chosen end of life? In a speech, Swiss nurse Margret F\u00fcchsle pointed out: \u201cOften, dying people bring in a hefty and almost bizarre humour \u2013 dying people are more than dying. No one wants to be seen only at this level in his or her last stage of life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many years, at DIGNITAS we make the same experience in our advisory work and in accompanying people in their self-determined ending of their suffering and life. What one feels to be funny, is individual, it\u2019s a matter of personal taste. Those who feel that jokes are inappropriate at life\u2019s end may choose not to read on and leave this website. All others find a small selection of fine humour, hefty satire, politically (in)correct side-swipes, etc in proverbs, cartoons, videos. \u201cLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh!\u201d (George Bernhard Shaw)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew \u201cMatt\u201d Pritchett in The Telegraph<\/a>, 19 March 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke in favour of assisted dying<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monty Python: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Life of Brian, 1979)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew <\/em>\u201cMatt\u201d Pritchett in The Telegraph<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jesus & Mo<\/a> on going to Z\u00fcrich, 8 March 2013<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ted Rall, The Los Angeles Times, 26 February 2015, in \u201cThe paradox of a government that cavalierly kills people but prevents assisted suicide\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Can we make fun of death? Does humour have a place in taking care of the suffering, the dying and in accompanied self-chosen end of life? In a speech, Swiss nurse Margret F\u00fcchsle pointed out: \u201cOften, dying people bring in a hefty and almost bizarre humour \u2013 dying people are more than dying. No one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1552\/revisions\/8432"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}