This is kinda like that Mary Tyler Moore episode about Peanuts The Clown’s Funeral. The Germans probably have a word for it.
As a human being, you are of course, saddened by the event. But there is just something in the circumstances that adds that surreal quality to it.
parsy, who has said enough
Life imitates the Far Side cartoon where the whale says, “Forget the herring, I’m going for the whole schmeer!”
Whalenfreude?