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Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way in which he painted an old woman. [9]Chrysippus, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", an influential 3rd-century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, reportedly died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his fermented figs; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them ...
I suggest to move it to the descriptive title, Death from laughter, because I cannot even find a decent definition of "fatal hilarity". The word "hilarity" means death of something funny, not from any laughter. There are at quite a few types of laughter which are not funny. - 7-bubёn >t 00:05, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
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These are a series of incomplete lists of unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus , killed by a tortoise dropped onto his head by an eagle , illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [ 1 ]
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The Funniest Joke in the World" (also "Joke Warfare" and "Killer Joke") is a Monty Python comedy sketch revolving around a joke that is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter. Ernest Scribbler (Michael Palin), a British "manufacturer of jokes", writes the joke on a piece of paper only to die laughing.
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Laughter can evolve as a medium for self-preservation, detaching the individual from any adversity faced allowing for perceived control over uncomfortable situations. [ 9 ] Sad clown paradox is characterised by a cyclothymic temperament , which encourages the creation of light-hearted humour in a professional setting, despite inner turmoil. [ 10 ]