RE: Schmuck!
August 6, 2012 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2012 at 3:15 pm by Cyberman.)
I suspect it's more the irony of a religious man performing a religious ceremony apparently not worthy of being saved by the god he was serving, or something like that. I agree that death is not funny in and of itself and the other factors you cited made this case all the more tragic. It has to be borne in mind that practically 100% of humour is rooted in the sense of relief that it's not you involved.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
