Laughter can coexist with pain without disrespecting it.

People laugh at funerals, in hospitals, in the middle of the worst weeks of their lives, and it is not disrespect. It is a way of staying upright while the difficult thing is still happening, and the grief is not diminished by it.

If you find yourself laughing in the middle of something painful, let it be. And if someone else does, do not correct them. The two things sit together more easily than we are taught, and the laughter is often what makes the rest bearable.