by Lore Sjöberg

For those of you who didn't take Art Appreciation in Junior College, there was a trend during the Renaissance to include in paintings and other works of art some reminder, small or large, that we're all gonna die: a "memento mori". This is just one of the reasons why Renaissance art is cooler than the Web:

But we're here to change all that. Just enter in your birthdate below and we'll put together a little momento mori (featuring Morty the Death's Head) that you can put on your own page to keep you in touch with your own mortality and perhaps entice your readers to consider theirs.