Abstract
There are many different sorts, hues, intensities, styles, applications, or contexts of humor. The use of humor in end-oflife, hospice, palliative, or terminal care is a taboo topic seldom studied in scientic literature. Beginning in the 1940s, designated as a form of dark or black humor, they have been used as cost-effective and innovative means for coping with tension by rephrasing end-of-life difculties or challenges by creating identities, expressing resentment, or promoting dignity and a sense of worth during interpersonal interactions between patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. This narrative review uses Socratic questioning or the W-Question format (what-where-which-whom-when-how and why sequence) to analyze enlisted studies on this theme along with their applicability, results, and limitations. Harvest plots are used to highlight thematic concerns and types of research interests by timelines in the past to raise potential areas of inquiry that should occupy those interested in the future.
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