I'm sorry you had to deal with that. What a bunch of ****** assholes. Id say leave them immediately and find some real friends who won't ridicule you in such a horrible manner

Maybe people don't know how to deal with something so heavy. So they use humor to cope instead of continuing a morbid conversation and depressing everything. They could have just been trying to make light of the situation. Doesn't mean they didn't think it was ****** and that it sucked. No pun intented.

Yeah because they probably weren't comfortable hearing your sob stories, get a therapist

seems like someone can't take a joke

Meh, get over it don't let petty shit phase you

For people who are saying they know people who laugh when under stress- that is called pseudobulbar affect. It's an example of almost literal 'crossed wires' in the brain, for any number of reasons. It can cause involuntary responses that don't fit the emotion being felt, exaggerate displays of the response, or both. A person will cry when angry or happy, or may laugh when under duress or sad. I have it to some degree- except that mine is almost only triggered by my own emotional or physical stress. With physical contact like body exams being one such trigger. I can probably accurately say that we don't usually want to be laughing at the situation either. We can sometimes delay or stop it, but not always, being chewed out for it doesn't help us stop the behavior and can actually intensify and/or prolong the episode. We tend to feel bad enough about it without being told off for the episodes, so try to keep that in mind please. That said, the episodes are far more intense than "awkward chuckling" even when it is an incorrect response.

At least they are honest about it. Other "true friends" would pretend to be sympathetic, but actually think the same or more hurtful.

Find some new friends dude.

"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove in court." - Law abiding citizen. So yeah, basically pics or it didn't happen.