We probably already laughed about it, a little, back then. That's how our family deals with traumatic events.
The funeral home people didn't know what they saw, when they arrived, just after my dad's passing, last September. We kept cracking jokes, just the way our dad would have liked it. It took them some time to adapt to it and then they enjoyed it ;>)
We laughed too to get through things. We were a very jokey family. I like to think I will carry on that tradition with my little uns
It's the best of traditions :<)
And it works. Mostly!