Carpe diem will someday die. It is medieval Latin, dating to 1287. Related but distinct is the expression "memento mori" (remember that you are mortal) which carries some of the same connotation as . For Horace, mindfulness of our own mortality is key in making us realize the importance of the moment. "Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." Over time the phrase also came to be associated with penitence, as suggested in many vanitas paintings. Today many listeners will take the two phrases as representing almost opposite approaches, with urging us to savour life and urging us to resist
Janice Meek a trustee of the Ocean Rowing Society, standing down from that position in 2005. Meek and her son Dan Byles were founding trustees of The Carpe Diem Foundation a charity aimed at helping ordinary people to undertake extraordinary achievements. Dan's election to Parliament in 2010 saw the charity closed and its monies distributed to other charitable organisations. In 2016 Jan was elected to the XX (Twenty Club) based in Hasting established by H. Rider Haggard In 2018 Jan led the establishment of the INSPIRATIONELLE Foundation a not for profit company limited by guarantee which much like the Carpe Diem Foundation