• hope@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I think they meant what they said. “Remember that you will die” does mean something similar to “you only live once.”

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      11 months ago

      No?

      Memento Mori means “remember that you must die”. That is pretty much the same “you only live once”.

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        11 months ago

        YOLO is a little more… eh… pro-active? Knowing that you are going to die is not quite the same as saying fuck-all and leaping to a possible death. However, there are multiple contexts for YOLO, so there is that.