Macabre
-adjective

1. gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible
2. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, esp. its grimmer or uglier aspect.
3. of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

"One of the macabre jokes in the African American community is that African American males should not have to pay into the social security system because they do not live long enough to collect it." - Janice Hale, "Learning While Black: Creating Educational Excellence for African American Children"

I hear macabre stories of violence and death much too often..