If humor wasn't mean't---it was downright cruel then.
You are nuts for even posting it---this from someone that had one parent whose family was wiped out at Bergen-Belsen.
Well, I'm sorry about your family truly. But yes, it was meant to be cruel--not as a joke. This whole affair makes me sick and reminds something you'd read about that occurred in Nazi Germany. They all scrambled around after the war proclaiming they were "just following the law" or "they were only following orders". Such an excuse! Yes, it was a cruel, but yet a sarcastic comment, because that's the way I feel about it and the intervention from my country on this subject is most disppointing, disheartening and pathetic. This country has lost it's way!
As far as your parent, I sincerely hope they have found paradise and God's loving grace and salvation. And for you to have found peace and love because of your loss. I've always honored and held people, like your parent, in high esteem, so that was not my intent. From that perspective, I'm sorry if this was intrepreted wrongly.