Memento Mori (Title edited by MNHQ @ request of OP)

[Kdtym10]

Meditating on your own death is a very powerful practice, it was something practiced throughout Europe and Scandinavia for centuries, if not millennia. (I understand some Eastern philosophies also have this practice - but they’re not my bag).

In the modern world we are ever increasingly push towards the concept of an ideal of eternal youth, death is seen as something to be avoided in thought and conversation.

Yet contemplating death, both your eventual physical death and the little deaths/endings that happen along the way has historically been seen as so important for life.

I find it incredibly empowering- I just wondered whether many people practice this?

I think maybe the world could be a 'better place' if we all lived in the certain knowledge all 'this' will pass and we will die - I'm sure we'd all be less materialistic. I don't meditate on my death: I am in God's hands and my hope is when I die I will hear "Well done, good and faithful servant". I hope I leave behind good memories and smiles. I live 'keeping short accounts' and in peace as much as is possible - as none of us know the day.