How often have we laughed in the face of death? Many times we find people searching for the most dangerous and extreme stunts that they can think of in order to attract attention, ratings, or even just for thrills. However with the greater the danger the greater probability for Death to come right up and slap you in the face for being so idiotic. No matter whom you are or how dangerously you live you life sooner or later Death will win out. This was the theme that I took from Muriel Spark’s book Memento Mori in the words of the voice on the phone “remember you must die.”
Though we may not always acknowledge it, death is a very big part of our lives. It is the constant eerie feeling we get when someone mentions a death or disease or an accident that happened to someone they know or heard about on the news. We all wonder what it would have been like had that been me or someone that I know, what would that feel like?
Its these issues in mind that I feel run through the minds of Lettie Colston and the other Characters of Memento Mori. Since most of the characters are now far and beyond the hill the issue of “death coming over to visit” is more and more probable. So when Lettie and company receive the phone calls saying “remember you must die” there mind must be a chaotic wave of fears, thoughts, and speculations. However the subject being as it is most of the characters to me feel to take a more civilized and unconcerned view on the subject in the public eye. They go about there days and while they will mention it on the surface that they are going on with out worry, I am sure death is just whispering in their ears. Death is a specialist, he is skilled in many tricks and crafts. So when your number is called, do expect to slip around him. In 2000, a movie called Final Destination was released in which a group of high schools st
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