Not really. You seize upon an anything in the story, then work from that because you are deeply moved by what happened.
In this case, they seized on the one thing there are zillions of quick to mind jokes about.
I remember walking up to what I thought was human paste, thinking I was walking up to what I thought was a gruesome death and saying, "I'm not giving this one CPR! You do it!" to my buddy who quipped right back, "Hell no, you get to trache him if we can find a neck!"
Both of the jokes were not funny and really at what any other group of people would have thought a terribly inappropriate time.
As it turned out CPR was unnecessary, as was a trache, as I stood there about ready to try to find a pulse I saw bubbles in the blood near his mouth... he not only was alive but he was still breathing on his own.
We made more and worse jokes as we scraped him up and put him in an ambulance, we really thought he wouldn't survive and didn't want to hold up a helicopter for him...
He not only survived, but after many months of therapy is a walking talking human...
And he's quit drinking.
I remember it because it effected me so much, and the jokes we told (most were far worse than the one I spoke about here) were almost as effecting...