Memento mori (Latin: “remember that you must die”) is the medieval Latin theory and practice of refection on mortality, especially as a means of considering the vanity of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.
Butterfly stands as the symbol of change, transformation. Although in some cultures it’s a symbol of soul.
It seems quite ironic that we use the needle to stick the symbol of soul under the magnifying glass, to take a look at it.
As I talked to my friends about death, the conversations always ended with the questioning if we have souls (or something that’s immortal, that lives after we die) or that everything ends with the death of the body. I find the question if we have souls more important than questioning what’s happening after we die.
The poems seemed most acceptable for me as that is just feelings about death, rather than unreasonable knowledge.
In this book, one has to use magnifying glass to read the poems, like at symbols of soul – butterfies.
The whole book is a mixture of classic and modern - from Antique Greek poems to modern nowadays poetry. It parallels to the initial idea of death studies – people where questioning it centuries ago as well as it is still a relevant discussion now. There are a number of opinions on it and what might seem an acceptable perception for one, will be disagreed by someone else.