When comedians say they “killed” an audience, they are usually speaking metaphorically. They mean that they made the audience laugh hard, but not so hard that anyone actually croaked.
However, it’s possible to literally die from laughter—not from the joke itself, but from the body’s reaction to it. Among the many possible medical ways that laughing too hard can kill you:
• Ruptured brain aneurysm
• Cardiac arrest
• Collapsed lung
• Strangulated hernia
• Gelastic seizures
• Stroke
• Asphyxiation
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—by Jim Goad
James 4:9 Berean Standard Bible
"Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom."
https://biblehub.com/james/4-9.htm
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