memento mori — literally “remember to die”.
morī is an infinitive — ‘to die’. Not ‘remember death’ as a noun, but remember the act, the thing that will happen to you.
It is not a threat and not gloomy. It was advice about how to spend a life you cannot keep.
Traditionally the line whispered to a Roman general during his triumph, while the crowd cheered.
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