ABSTRACT
The phrase 'memento mori' which the author have taken as a title means 'remember you must die'. The first response comes by turning the question round to make it not 'how would it be possible to forget about death?' This paradox may be transposed onto an ethical plane to produce a second response. As for the third response as to how it is possible to forget death, authors can elaborate on the absolute injunction from the first response and with it raise the question of force. Death appears both necessary and contingent and can only be possible because it will have done away with actuality, so all it can ever do is promise itself. In these simple terms, death appears as an event, that which comes, that which happens. The body arrives at death, or death arrives at the body, and once the body falls the mind must fall too; it goes down like a captain with his ship.
