If you had to give an undisguised account of your life and actions today, could you say you were a good you? This memento mori theme figures prominently in the

If you had to give an undisguised account of your life and actions today, could you say you were a good you? This memento mori theme figures prominently in the ceremonies of most fraternities and their organiations for that reason, as it's part of the foundation for living a moral life. The symbolism is important because it serves as a durable landmark for aspects of human experience that are essential, and by transmitting them, they form a map for following generations. "For the time will most assuredly come, and the best and wisest know not how soon, when all distinctions among men save those of goodness and virtue shall cease, and death, the leveler of human greatness shall reduce us all to the same level."