A memento mori statue, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin.

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    Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

    Credit: A memento mori statue, used to remind the user of the transience of life and material luxury, containing a decaying corpse inside a coffin. Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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