Morbid Comparison

The joke plays on the phrase "getting old," which usually means aging, and uses it in a very dark and literal sense, linking it to the fact that children with cancer may not live to grow old. It's a morbid comparison that's definitely not for everyone.

• Kid
• Cancer
• Old
• Age
• Laughter
• Childhood

• Dark humor is like cancer, it's funnier when children get it.
• The good thing about dead baby jokes is that they never get old.
• Jokes are like your grandparents, old and dead.
• Did you hear about the baby with cancer? It never gets old.