A man wakes from a coma. His wife changes out of her black clothes and, irritated, remarks, “I really cannot depend on you in anything, can I!”
Coma Comeback
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The humor comes from the dark irony of the situation. The wife was expecting the husband to die while in a coma and was already in mourning. Now he's awake, and her reaction is not one of joy, but of annoyance. She is bothered that she can't 'depend' on him to die.