What does Memento Mori mean?
Remember you must die.
This is not a threat.
It’s a whispered invitation.
To wake up.
To pay attention.
To write your story before someone else has to.
Memento Mori is a Latin phrase that means “remember you must die.”
It is not meant to be frightening — it is meant to wake us up.
For centuries, artists and philosophers have used skulls, hourglasses, and wilting flowers as reminders that life is fragile, fleeting, and worth honoring while we still have it. These symbols are not morbid — they are mirrors. They reflect the truth that every breath is borrowed and every goodbye, sacred.
In art, Memento Mori shows up as black-and-white contrasts, roses beside bone, time slipping quietly through glass. In life, it shows up when someone we love becomes memory.
At Memento Mori Memorials, this truth lives at the heart of every eulogy we write.
We believe that remembering someone well — with care, truth, and poetry — is one of the most human things we can do. It is how we keep their light alive, even in the dark.
If you are grieving and want their story told with reverence,
we are here to help you say what matters — beautifully.