people take life way too seriously

No one gets out alive.

Not much is more serious than staring at your shattered femur projecting through a mass of upper-thigh-flesh that looks like raw, bloody hamburger. Screaming for mercy that won't come as your spine is bent backwakwards and snaps with a dull, woody cracking sound.

Life can be very serious indeed, son.

in the flesh no

by the decisions one makes, it can be painful for some, and not so painful for others. But in the end we all go.