Memento mori should motivate us to live our best days. It seems to me that when we live beyond the average number of Mondays most people get, we should make the best of them.

Memento mori is Latin for “remember that you will die.” This practice of contemplating our mortality was emphasized by Stoic philosophers such as Seneca and Marcus Aureilas, holds a place in ...

Whenever I hear the phrase “memento mori,” my mind always jumped to American Psycho. In the musical, Patrick Bateman says “Even if this story is overwrought and gory, it’s not a fable, it ...