We All Croak – Memento Mori
Posted On Nov 4 2019My friend, Daniel, told me of an app that reminds you that we all croak. Remembering death is an honored practice in all religions. Since the 1950s, we mostly have hidden death away and forgotten this useful truth – we are going to die. Franz Kafka goes so far as to say, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” In this day of the dead season, pay attention. Memento Mori, Latin for remember you must die, has been a practice in the Christian tradition from the beginning and before that, the Greek philosophers. It’s a good practice. This chapter …