Norm Macdonald - Suicide

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Love to see some Norm! His bit about fighting cancer makes me tear up every time I hear it anymore

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have a link?

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sure thing. Here you go

      On the language of “losing/winning” a “battle” with cancer:

      “I’m pretty sure when you die, the cancer dies too at the same time. So that to me isn’t a loss, it’s a draw.”

      It’s worth mentioning that Norm MacDonald died from leukemia in 2021 and the joke was probably written sometime early into his diagnosis or pre-diagnosis. If I were reading into it like an English teacher, I’d say that this is an example of a man candidly coming to terms with his own mortality, vocalizing it in the only way he know n how: third-person comedy. It’s just all-in-all a pretty saddening thing to look back on. Almost reminds me of that tragedy.

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• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  comedians have this amazing gift of being able to make us laugh wildly about even the worst horrible things.

  ♥️Norm Genius♥️

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• Vaggumon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve said this thousands of times, and I still believe it fully. Assisted suicide should 100% be legal. You can put a dog out of it’s misery but mom has to die slowly and painfully from the incurable cancer eating their brain.

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• Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What an excellent take! This guy understands.

  As someone who has been close to the edge a few times whilst depressed, this made me feel so much better about it.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But then you came and it made you feel better, right?

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    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sont know who downvoted you. I think that’s pretty funny.

      Depression isn’t funny, but jokes are.

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