My spouse has become obsessed with memento mori practices after a friend's sudden death and wants us to completely restructure our lives around the principle that we could die any moment, but I think they're using death awareness to avoid dealing with actual grief. We're stuck because any resistance I offer gets framed as denial of life's fragility.
More people experience this than they realize.
Death awareness is being used as spiritual bypassing rather than genuine reckoning with loss.
“Where Are You with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.