The first question I want to ask is, "How did she do in the contest?" I mean, did they give her a
posthumous award for, at least, being a trier?! Second question, "Was there, at least, one guy at the contest, who thought,
'From experience, I'm pretty sure she's got this,' and put money down on her?
Honestly, if I died doing jumping jacks naked on my balcony, I would expect a few laughs as this made the news. In fact I would demand it, or would haunt you in your dreams.
Someone dying doesn't automatically make something unfunny.
I remember siblings playing chicken, by driving a car towards the other, and waiting until the last second to dive out of the way. In a packed parking lot where innocent civilians could have been hit.
He zagged. She zigged. He died.
The sheer stupidity of it all, made it funny to many. Sucks for his parents, his sister, but at some point one must ask the question. "What in the actual f*** were you thinking?!"
Her situation isn't idiocy, but more stuffing ones face full of food gone horribly awry.
I can see the snickers, but at the end of the day, looks like the world lost a good person when this thing happened.
I couldn't agree more. When I look back at some of the f***ing stupid things I did as a kid... (Skating the two feet wide wall of a bridge, twenty feet above a four-lane motorway, is one that springs to mind.) Other people f***ing up, through sheer stupidity, like children hurting themselves, will
always be funny!
Generally speaking, much like in the animal kingdom, the herd will thin itself out, from time to time, with no interference from any outside party needing to take place. I think perspective needs to be sought, as opposed to just rolling out all the feels, every time we hear someone has died. This is a young person who took part in a hotdog eating competition, we haven't lost the cure for Cancer with this one gone, if anything, she has actually saved herself a long, tiresome job-search, later in life.
Personally, I disagree with you on one tiny point, I would say,
"Stuffing ones face full of food," does, indeed, qualify as idiocy. You learn as a child, eating food too quickly is a choking hazard. The public statement from the school was,
"In the face of this painful loss," (which I feel is someone being low-key funny already), "
our hearts go out to Madie's family and friends." Behind closed doors, you just know their opinion is far more to the effect of,
'How will the actions of this idiot effect enrollment numbers?'
Apparently,
"Thousands of students came out to the campus to mourn the loss of Nicpon, shortly after her death on Sunday evening." Speaking just for myself, I wouldn't want folk to mourn my death, if that was the way I died. I would want to be forgotten, because you just know someone, unsure of what is going on, is going to ask how you died... And, sadly, someone else is going to tell them!! f*** that! Just say, I died in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident, dressed in lingerie and heels, at least that way, I stand the chance of someone saying, "Well, at least he went out happy, by his own hand!" (So to speak!)