This a little blog for posting of death related pieces of humour.

Welcome to my blog about things death related. Each item will directly or indirectly refer to death from a humourous angle. My inspiration will come from Python, the bible and and assorted bits of experience. Many posts will read like a mixture of the pythoneque and the biblical, I will also be taking more than just an occasional swipe at religion.

Humans are like other animals in that they fear death and to this end have a very strong survival instinct. Humans are unlike other animals in that they know that death will visit them at some time in the future no matter what the survival instinct. Between these two human realities lies a great deal of anxiety and a great impetus for religion. The results are tragic and comic. The human animal is the tragic comic among the apes.

Humans also differ from other animals in that their fears, instincts and efforts can substantially alter their immediate environment. Where other animals must live with the environment as they find it we can alter that environment in full expression of our fears and instincts and we can find ourselves meeting up with what we were running away from in our very own creations leading to an escalation of efforts to run away from ourselves. Most of what we fear is the result of our own creations. Humans face very few fears arsing from the natural world. Additionally our brains which are wired with a repertoire of responses to the natural world can be rutted into just a few responses should those few be over exercised. One result is PTSD for seriously traumatised people. What is a natural defence evolved to face extreme dangers on the savanna plains becomes dysfunctional. A lesser degree of this phenomenon expressed in a wider social context rather then an individual context is fear fevor or moral panic. Once a fear fevour or moral panic is fixed widely enough it takes on an inertia of its own seeking fearful situations in which to play. In the absence of real danger imaginary dangers are conjured in existence. New fear then leads to a self fulling realisation. Alternately exaggerating minor fears into major ones will also feed a fear fevour. For humans this is both sad and comic. Home sapiens is the tragic ape.