Abstract
Death anxiety is the first cause of laughter. As self-conscious creatures we live deeply rooted in incongruity: the knowledge that we die. Our sense of humor enables us not only to exist in this predicament but also to play with it to our advantage. The existential joke is on all of us, but usually we use humor to ostracize, even savagely, as we project death’s curse onto others. We can, however, become self-realized as we appreciate the denial of death that is built into the fabrications of our cultural belief systems. We become able to view our illusions ironically. Humor in the service of faith and grace can be affiliative rather than ostracizing, and serve to disarm fundamentalism.
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