Usage in Modern Times
As well as taking root in modern conceptions of Roman customs, the phrase has passed into contemporary culture, including use by air force pilots such as John Lerew (his biography is titled "We Who Are About to Die"), a World War II film entitled Morituri, a Marvel comic of the 1980s called Strikeforce: Morituri that focused on superheroes who were inevitably going to die, a set of one-act plays of the 1890s by Hermann Sudermann, Joseph Conrad's canonical 1902 novel Heart of Darkness, James Joyce's novel Ulysses, in popular music of the 1980s, as well as music in video games, in the paper title of peer-reviewed medical research, in a political maiden speech, market commentary during 2008 global financial crisis and in modern art, fiction, non-fiction and poetry related to the Roman period.
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