What has made you laugh during a tragic time?

Once when I was young and stupid, a friend and I were talking about morbid but funny ways to have our funerals. He outgrossed out everyone by saying he wanted to be de-boned and filled with helium. He wanted to be a giant Macy’s parade balloon and fill people with terror as he floated above them.

About a year later, he actually died. I was devastated and depressed naturally. But a day or so after his death, his mother called me and asked if her son ever mentioned his wishes for a funeral. Immediately, the giant Macy’s parade float story comes to my mind and I can’t mention it because it’s totally horrible. But it cracked me up and I laughed uncontrollably for a while.

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I know this sounds awful, but I have other experiences where in the middle of deep grief, I just burst out in laughter over something odd. I wondered if anyone else has done this.