Depeche Mode | Memento Mori

"Memento Mori" (remember death).

A phrase rooted in classical Stoic philosophy and adopted into the religious symbolism of Western Christianity, it has functioned in the art world to signify a work that evokes a sense of mortality and the fragility of life in the art observer. Within a Western culture that thrives on the denial of death, such works often land with a countercultural urgency.