My pal Ed's humor knows no bounds and sometimes need to be explained usually by him to me. However in this case...
Speaking of the above NY Post Headline:
But a few learned types fell for its dark humor. Literary scholar Peter Shaw, writing in The National Review, cited its compelling “trochaic rhythm . . . the juxtaposition of two apparently unrelated kinds of toplessness conjoined sex and death even as they are conjoined in reality.”