Memento Mori: Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life

Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree--contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.

This life-changing book will give you a 12 week program to befriend death in your own way, creating your own personal, daily meditation on what it means to be mortal. Through personal anecdotes, historical examples, meditations, exercises, journal prompts, and reflections, you will learn to both come to terms with what death means and to live alongside it without fear. In doing so, you will see your own life in a new light and discover what makes life worth living. After all, there’s no better motivation to seize the day than a regular reminder that your days are numbered.

Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, grieving a loved one, or seeking a greater sense of purpose, Memento Mori is an invaluable guide to living a life of greater meaning and joy.

Joanna Ebenstein is an internationally recognized death expert. She is the creator of the Morbid Anatomy blog, library, and event series and was cofounder and creative director of the (now closed) Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn. She is also the teacher of the many times sold out class Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination. She is a well-known writer, photographer, event producer, and award-winning curator.