Death Rattle
A Haiku
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
—Marcus Aurelius
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
—Cormac McCarthy
Above: Memento Mori.
The young man declares:
“It just can’t happen to me.”
Death whispers: “Just wait.”
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With sincere gratitude,
Tom
Interesting... I'd never seen the phrase on the skull. Which is weird because in the LDS faith we have a similar couplet:
"As man now is, God once was:
As God now is, man may be."
Which to be fair most mainstream Christians view as wildly heretical, but it's interesting to contrast it with your Memento Mori phrase...
Remember Death 💀📯⚖️🐎🪽