E136 - Day 136: Memento Mori for Normal People | Dying Every Day

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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 136.

You don’t need a skull on your desk or a Latin motto in your bio to practice memento mori.

Montaigne, a sixteenth-century philosopher influenced by the Stoics, treats mortality as a human issue rather than a rare or dramatic event. He removes death from the category of “special occasions” and places it where it truly belongs: within everyday life.

Montaigne famously relies on...