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"YOLO" and "Memento Mori" mean pretty much the same thing (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No?

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.