What a Priest and a Mortician Teach About Dying Well

June 9, 2026 World News

William Michael Harnett, “Memento Mori” (1879). Death is symbolized in this painting by the skull, the extinguished candle, the empty hourglass, and a quote from the graveyard scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

COMMENTARY: The more you remember your death in a good way, the more you can embrace this life.

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