The resurgence of moral fervour in the Baroque period gave rise to a new type of discourse on death, the quotidie morior. It entails constantly preparing oneself for death through spiritual exercises to make the idea of death more familiar, remind oneself that death is nigh, and keep oneself in a state of permanent readiness for it. The exercises, such as meditation on a skull and trying to attain an aprioristic vision of the ceremonial surrounding one’s own death, are expressions of the devout humanism that brought about the firm synthesis of ancient dogma with Christian principles and, for the sake of practical or utilitarian morality, provided rational and mystical bases for old ideological concepts.