Exploration of death themes in diverse world myths.

Latin for “remember you must die,” memento mori is not a threat, not a warning shouted from the shadows, but a quiet companion that walks beside us, placing a gentle hand on the shoulder and asking us to really notice the fragile, fleeting fact of being alive. It is a philosophical and artistic tradition that does something rather radical in a culture like ours: it insists that mortality awareness does not have to arrive wrapped in panic. Memento Mori, "To This Favour" 1879 W