Death has even become humorous amongst groups of users on the internet. For example, celebrity death pool 2019, a website where people can vote on which celebrity will die next. Imagine you were a celebrity and found yourself on this website, how would it make you feel? After all we are all humans with emotions, which celebrities are too.
Joking about death and suicide is now widespread amongst the youth. With the rise of internet memes, joking about suicide has become more accessible and trendier than ever. Even though many of these jokes are made by people who aren’t depressed but rather frustrated at the current climate in terms of politics and other saddening events which make life difficult to deal with, this still adds to the normalisation of death. In trying to deal with horrible situation with humour, it detracts the seriousness of the topic.
Beth Radic Art 