I don’t disagree. Most folks don’t think about the possibility of suicide when their friends are having a hard time. Acknowledging it head on is actually a hard thing to do. Avoiding it is actually going to be a disservice. If this guy is my true friend, and I know he means well. What he’s actually saying to me is he’s not going to like me very much if I actually kill myself. Outside looking in, it may be hard to understand.
Discussion
You’re right, it is hard to understand. I guess this is where cultures differ. Maybe it’s normal is such cultures to be like this. But I think you would be mistaken to think this is a universal behaviour across the world.
I am not assuming any universality, I understand humor is completely dependent on cultural contexts. The universality part of this is: what humor can do, it takes you outside of yourself, it has the ability to talk about hard things in very direct ways. Imagine the words that may follow this conversation: “Bro, let’s go grab a drink and talk.”
Didn’t seem like this was where the conversation in the video was heading. But acknowledged, everyone and every culture is different