"Aha, I knew someone must've been killing Yorick, or orchestrating his many deaths to some degree. You really ought to cut the poor man some slack. Hasn't he been through enough?"

He's let a full-fledged snicker rise to his face now, a marked improvement, considering everything. Sorry, Yorick, your deaths make a great continued ice-breaker for social mending. It's all for a good cause.