I can't imagine a worse indignity than having a death that makes people laugh. (I did laugh and I'll feel guilty about that later...if I have the time.)
I wonder if the poor guy was such a definite "Darwin Award" candidate *before* he had the stroke?
This is the sort of thing that makes me have a mental image of "the great whatever" as the deceased slumped at a bar with a glass in his hand muttering "oh, for fuck's sake, I have to go through eternity with THIS hanging over my head!!"