"Memento Mori: remember you must die. This Latin phrase is not intended to inspire dread but to confront our fear of death and remind us of the transient nature of life. As Socrates says, 'The aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death'. In ancient Greek myth, life was imagined as a single thread and the keepers of this thread were personified as three sisters known as the Moirai or Fates. Clotho the ‘spinner’ spun a person’s thread at birth; La
