There is something ineffable about the fleeting transition from summer to winter, which makes Autumn irresistible to artists and poets revering it as the quintessential memento mori season. Sonnet 73: ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook “Death and the Miser” is a 1561 painting from Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a classical deathbed ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette" (c. 1886), oil on canvas, 12 7/10 x 9 2/5 inches (32.5 x 24 cm), held at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (image via Wikimedia Commons) In ...

When I was a little girl, I lived in my grandparents’ home, alongside my father and brother. Because of this, I was privy to a lot of early life lessons, particularly related to death. I would ...

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Memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning "remember you must die," encourages us to live life to the fullest. The phrase originates from ancient Rome, where a servant would remind victorious generals of ...

Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP, has had an interesting Twitter project for the last year and a half: she has kept a small (ceramic) skull on her desk, and has been tweeting daily meditations on death ...

Suffering and death are facts of life: “Everyone dies, their bodies rot, and every face becomes a skull.” Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble’s mission is to revive the practice of memento mori, ...