My roommates and I started a house practice of regular memento mori reflection after someone suggested it would help us live more intentionally together, but it's revealed that we have fundamentally different values about what a life worth living looks like. Now our monthly death awareness conversations have become the place where all our unspoken conflicts about lifestyle and priorities come out in uncomfortable ways.
More people experience this than they realize.
Contemplating mortality together has revealed irreconcilable differences about how life should be lived.
“Where Are You with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.