Join us to celebrate the release of Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life, a new book by Mérida resident Joanna Ebenstein that provides a 12-week program aimed at helping readers befriend death. Filled with lessons learned across cultures and with the help of insightful prompts and questions, the reader will come away with greater clarity on what death means to them, how to live alongside it without fear, and what, to them, makes life worth living. As our ancestors knew so well, there’s no better motivation to seize the day than a regular reminder that your days are numbered.

There could be no better guide than Joanna Ebenstein to the enriching and startlingly uplifting benefits of confronting our mortality. This wonderfully readable, witty, practical yet philosophically profound book has the power to shift your perspective and lead you into a more intense experience of life. — Oliver Burkeman, New York Times bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Joanna Ebenstein is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. An internationally recognized death expert, she is the author of several books, including Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human Anatomy, Death: A Graveside Companion, and The Anatomical Venus. She is also an award-winning curator, photographer, and graphic designer, and the teacher of the many times sold-out class Make Your Own Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination. The descendant of holocaust survivors, she traces her lineage back to Judah Loew ben Bezalel, credited with creating the Golem in sixteenth-century Prague.