the quick to judge might want to remember that dark humour is a common coping mechanism, its not wrong, just different.
gallows humour if you like.
im sure the OP knew very well the variety of responses he would get here.
sorry to hear the start of your day bigbloke.
True enough, my Wife is a Nurse specialising in palatine home care – we sometimes joke about her getting to finish early if someone dies etc, but never publicly. I don’t know how she does it, there’s a sort of timescale – she mentions about Mrs such and such, gets to know them over weeks or months, then there’s a event that sometimes comes out of the blue and they have to be medicated to the point where they’ll never regain consciousness and they die, not all her patients died thankfully – sometimes they just need drugs a few times a day or wound management, but more than 50% seem to be end of life, a constant stream of people. Meet them, get to know them, than they reach the point when it’s too painful for them to be awake, then they died, everyone of them effects her a little bit, not like a loved one or a relative, but it still effects her. The joking helps lighten the mood sometimes, I couldn’t do it.