Laughing matters – even when confronting your own mortality

Humour lightens the load in this journey called life.

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Humour helps keep us from becoming too stiff and robotic. A society that can laugh at itself is one that can still see itself clearly enough to improve, says the writer.

Humour helps keep us from becoming too stiff and robotic. A society that can laugh at itself is one that can still see itself clearly enough to improve, says the writer.

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Yeo Whee Jim

“How are you?” asked the friend with genuine concern, worried about what to say.

“Not dead yet, lor,” I, the quadriplegic on a ventilator, declared.

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