... dying daily, encourage you to quit wasting your life away on stupid stuff, and motivate you to start living the life you want NOW Danse Macabre, or Dance of Death A sub-genre of memento mori art ... being a downer, death was seen as a motivator to live a good, meaningful, and virtuous life To help men remember death, artists created paintings, sculptures, and mosaics depicting skulls, skeletons, ... reminder that we’ll all have to pay the fiddler once our mortal hoedown is through Vanitas Vanitatum Omnia Vanitas Another sub-genre of memento mori art is called vanitas This artistic motif was particularly...