As Memento Mori approaches its 10th anniversary in November, the Hartmans plan to take the shop on the road as a vendor at various gift fairs and themed events.

However, the memento mori message lived on in other art forms, like the Dutch vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. They included symbols of death (a skull, a snuffed candle) to ...

“For me, memento mori was how I processed my brother’s death. Remembrance of death means living every day with purpose and meaning, embracing the present moment with God and other people.

Art World 7 Ways of Looking at the Memento Mori, Art History’s Spookiest—and Most Misunderstood—Genre. From skull emojis to Damien Hirst, the symbolism is everywhere.

Ms. Wilkens credits memento mori with giving her the “spiritual tools” to grapple with her 9-year-old son’s serious health issues. “It has allowed me, not exactly to cope, ...

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! Remember that you will die! Take the time to reflect on death, because our hope is in life everlasting. “Teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart” (Psalm 90:12).

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 ...