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Memento Mori
- The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life
- Narrated by: Joanna Ebenstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life
Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.
This life-changing book will give you a 12-week program to befriend death in your own way, creating your own personal, daily meditation on what it means to be mortal. Through personal anecdotes, historical examples, meditations, exercises, journal prompts, and reflections, you will learn to both come to terms with what death means and to live alongside it without fear. In doing so, you will see your own life in a new light and discover what makes life worth living. After all, there’s no better motivation to seize the day than a regular reminder that your days are numbered.
Whether you're struggling with anxiety, grieving a loved one, or seeking a greater sense of purpose, Memento Mori is an invaluable guide to living a life of greater meaning and joy.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains the Appendix: Resources and Going Forward section from the printed book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
What the critics say
"Joanna Ebenstein has studied, and more importantly, lived this practice of death engagement for decades. This makes her one of the people I most trust to guide us through the pain, joy, fear, and ultimate euphoria of facing our own mortality."—Caitlin Doughty, New York Times bestselling author and founder of Order of the Good Death
"There could be no better guide than Joanna Ebenstein to the enriching and startlingly uplifting benefits of confronting our mortality. This wonderfully readable, witty, practical yet philosophically profound book has the power shift your perspective and lead you into a more intense experience of life."–Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
"A thoughtful, erudite survey through history and across cultures for all of us who wonder about death in order to lead more meaningful lives."—Steve Leder, New York Times bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains and For You When I Am Gone