It&#x27;s not necessarily in good taste, and not necessarily universally funny, but yes, it&#x27;s totally possible to make anything serious into a joke. The usual technique is to bring a lot of absurdity to the situation, which truthfully I didn&#x27;t see in this post.<p>On a personal (potentially explanatory) note, my first death threat came from a man aiming a loaded gun at my face. No joke was intended there! I think that experience has left me somewhat unable to manifest concern about threats that aren&#x27;t backed up with firepower, which probably leaves me more open to seeing the humor.