National Archives Month: Memento Mori
October is National Archives Month
Engage, learn, and connect with the most haunting digital collections that USU Library has to offer throughout the month of October!
About Memento Mori: The Art of Death and Mourning
Memento Mori, "remember that you will die," expresses the inevitability of death. Explore the darker side of our collections through hallmarks of how we mourn, celebrate, deny, and ultimately accept death.
"Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" —Epicurus
These representations and beliefs provide an important cultural understanding of death and mourning.
"These kinds of human expressions, humorous or horrific, that all point to how we deal, through art and words, with death and the fear that often accompanies it." —John DeVilbiss.