Basic Trope: Someone dies while laughing.
- Straight: Bob dies while laughing.
- Exaggerated: Bob spends hours laughing, and then finally dies.
- Downplayed: Bob only laughs for a few minutes before dying (in this case, it's most likely that laughing had nothing to do with his death).
- Justified:
- Bob was close to death when he started laughing anyway.
- Bob agreed with how funny this petard was.
- If Bob hadn't laughed during that funeral like that, he wouldn't be full of lead, capisce?
- This has been known to happen in Real Life - the exact cause is either asphyxiation or cardiac arrest, and can occur if the person has been laughing for a very long period of time and/or has a heart condition.
- Inverted:
- Bob laughs when close to death, and is brought back to full health.
- Bob causes someone else to die when he laughs.
- Bob kills someone while laughing.
- Subverted: Bob is revealed to have just been unconscious.
- Double Subverted: He dies later, also while laughing.
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- Averted: No one dies while laughing.
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- Invoked: Bob was killed while laughing.
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