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A group of young choristers in school uniforms burn palm crosses in an outdoor fire pit, creating ash for Ash Wednesday near Salisbury Cathedral. Day of the Dead figurines Title page from 1665 Bills of Mortality, framed with skulls and bones, features a skull and crossbones with banner reading Memento Mori above text about London's plague deaths. Hamlet (1948)
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“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return”
Children burning the palm crosses of the previous year's Palm Sunday celebration...
© Matt Cardy/Getty Images
Day of the Dead figurines
Toy figurines for the Day of the Dead, made of pottery and paper, from Oaxaca, Mexico,...
Courtesy of the Girard Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Memento mori
The title page of the Bills of Mortality, taken between December 27, 1664,...
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Hamlet (1948)
Holding Yorick's skull, Hamlet (played by Laurence Olivier) contemplates death in...
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