Let us, for the moment, assume that humour can heal. Does this mean that
people devoid of senses-of-humor have one less healing alternative available
to them than the rest of us do? Or perhaps one does not have to "get" a
joke in order for the joke to improve one's physical condition. Perhaps the
cadence and flows of the syallables in a joke hold some cuarative power.
More significantly, if the hypothesis concerning humor were true, one would
expect a higher incidence of illness in people without senses-of-humour.
This should be cause for increasing their health insurance rates. Perhaps
someone should conduct a comparative study of illness at law shools vs.
clown schools.
Ron Reiner
