What Is Memento Mori?

Memento Mori — (Latin: remember you will die)–is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is “about nothing else but dying and being dead.” In his Meditations—essentially his own private journal—Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You could leave life right now. Let that … Continue reading What Is Memento Mori?