What is Memento mori?
{{italictitle}} '''''Memento mori''''' ([[Latin]] for 'remember that you [have to] die'<ref name='oed'>[http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/memento-mori Literally 'remember (that you have) to die'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823005041/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/memento-mori |date=2016-08-23 }}, [[Oxford English Dictionary]], Third Edition, June 2001.</ref>) is an artistic [[figure of speech]]. It is a reminder that nobody can avoid [[death]]. It has been written on many [[Gravestone|gravestones]]. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Figures of speech]] {{-}} {{stub}}