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A guy was offered a cemetery plot for $10,000. He said, “Are you kidding? That’s the last thing I need!”

What’s so funny about this? Yeah, this joke is slightly morbid since it’s about death. But actually death is one of the most joked about subjects, probably because laughing is a lot better than screaming in horror. What you’re looking at in the cartoon is a common practice among certain groups and parts of the population done by undertakers, funeral parlors and some specialized companies. You can even buy them on-line from companies with names like “grave solutions.” This happens to be a great pun. “Grave” can be an adjective meaning serious and it can be a noun that means the hole in the ground where you are buried. But my favorite on-line offering is on craigslist where someone was selling a “slightly used” grave site – eewww! In our cartoon the guy in the black suit, presumably an undertaker, is offering to sell the guy with the big nose a plot in the cemetery for $10,000. Sound