Memento Mori: Death Changes How You Live, If You Let It

Embrace mortality to live with intention. Explore the history of Memento Mori, the Grim Reaper, Liberace’s legacy, and why facing death changes everything. https://bit.ly/434ASy3

Memento Mori. What Does it Really Mean?

You are going to die. What if remembering that is the key to actually living well? Most of us don’t spend much time thinking about death. But when we do, something interesting happens: we start to see what matters. This week, Marianne and Charlie kick off a brand-new series exploring the humanities and the art of dying. 

From the lavish life and hidden cause of death of Liberace to the driving funk of The Rolling Stones’ "Dancing with Mr. D," we explore how history, art, and myth use mortality not to create fear, but to bring ultimate clarity to life. Tune in, grab Liberace's recipe for Singapore and Malaysian Satay, and learn how to carpe the heck out of your diem.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro: How Can Awareness of Death Change Our Life?
03:18 - Recipe-Liberace's Singapore and Malasian Satay Appetizer
04:32 - Liberace's Obituary
10:23 - The Meaning of Memento Mori
13:45 - The Origin of the Grim Reaper
16:50 - The Guides of Souls: Psychopomps and Charon's Boat
19:57 - "Dancing with Mr D" - Rolling Stones
22:24 - Outro - Carpe the Heck Out of Your Diem!

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Related Episodes:

• S3E43: How Accepting Death Can Improve Your Life – If you want to dive deeper into how breaking the culture of silence directly transforms your day-to-day choices, this episode is the perfect next step.
• S4E10: How to turn Aging into a Superpower – Discover how embracing your mortality strips away the trivial noise of daily life, leaving room for a vivid, beautiful, and highly intentional perspective on the time we have left.
• S7E04: An App That Predicts Your Death Date: Would You Want to Know? – If you want a modern, high-tech twist on memento mori, this episode explores what happens when we give death a digital face instead of a historical one. It looks at how a real-time countdown clock can either trigger data anxiety or act as the ultimate motivator to choose better, live deeper, and actively reclaim your time.

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