I know you asked, "morbid or funny?" about this particular case. However, I can't help but wonder in the larger sense. Someone died. Morbid or funny?
Me? I'm 24, so many would say I can't have a valid opinion on such a thing. I mean, my current "Will" would read something along the lines of "Don't bury me, just dump my corpse somewhere that it'll get eaten."
I know, sounds "morbid" to a lot of people. But to me... at least right now... death isn't that big of a deal to me. I really wonder if my attitude will change with age/time, but for now, I just can't mourn the dead. I just see there being few options as to what happens.
1) They're dead and that's it. No afterlife. Woot! Game over man! So why should I be sad for someone that doesn't even exist?
2) There IS an afterlife, and the dearly departed is in heaven. Woot! Paradise! Need I say more?
3) There IS an afterlife, and the dearly departed is in hell. Well, bummer dude. It's FOREVER. There's no way out, you're hosed, and life, by comparision to eternity, is so freakin' short that I'd have to feel bad for EVERYONE who ever went to hell. I mean, apparently life was just that brief, fractional second where you WEREN'T a total jackass deserving eternal fire and suffering. If god sent you to hell, then who am I to mourn that "good" person you were obviously just pretending to be on earth?
That's about it. I haven't really seen another option for death. Well, maybe if the hindus are right, you get reincarnated as some other creature. That also qualifies as a "Woot!" scenario though. Me, I'd love to be an animal for a lifetime or three. I mean, Ant would suck, but as long as you keep getting chances, it's all just good stories to tell later.
No, I'm not joking. I'm serious. Death is not a big deal. The ones we should mourn are the living. Everything else is so incomprehensible, that to be sad for something you don't even understand just seems pitiful.
So is my view morbid, or funny? Me? I think both. Morbid is, more often than not, funny.
No, seriously, you'd all better be laughing (and getting drunk) at my funeral! :-P