Not sure people explicitly realise this, but when somebody is hurting and opens up and talks about it, one of the most hurtful things the other conversant(s) can do is reorient the topic to be about them and/or to be about jocular takes on the topic.
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Those jokes are not offensive, but are indeed part of the healing process. It's important to know that like the word "that" refers to dramatically different things as a fraction of context, pragmatics plays a great role in when a joke is OK or not.
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If you think a joke isn't appropriate — if you are not sure — don't make it.
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*as a __function__ of context
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