Treating the death of a young adult as several times more tragic than the death of an elderly adult is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irrational. Now, laughin

Treating the death of a young adult as several times more tragic than the death of an elderly adult is not a new phenomenon, nor is it irrational. Now, laughing in an elderly person's face is obviously rude and unnecessary (although I won't necessary begrudge gallows humor as a coping mechanism.) But expecting people to treat the death of elderly people as seriously as the death of young people is unreasonable.