In total there are about 2.5 million deaths due to all causes annually in America. That works out to about 6,850 deaths per day or about 285 people per hour or about 70 deaths every 15 minutes.
Most of us consider death to be grim and something we would rather not think and/or talk about. So it's interesting to see that there is a lot of death-related humor, some of it actually funny. Consider the humor writer Mike Sacks. He wrote a funny (perhaps grim) cartoon called "IKEA Instructions." It is available online:

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