This sort of pervading attitude is precisely why ghoul pools (and any sort of dark humour / black comedy) are so necessary. Society treats death as this massive, terrible thing that is the worst thing that can happen to anybody, ever. What sort of message does that give to a terminal cancer patient? How does that make them feel? It puts them in the ground already.
Fatalism is about accepting the inevitable. If I can't avoid it, then I'm going to do my best to embrace it. Better to joke and laugh and try to trivialise death than build it up as a massive spectre by treating it with such hushed and fearful respect. The only way you give death power over your life is by treating it like it is a big thing.
If you're going to mistake my contemptuous attitude towards death by playing this game as a genuine hope that someone dies, a lack of respect for the person's life / the suffering of the family who has to deal with their absence, or anything like that then that's your problem.