Sirach bids us to keep in mind our future death and cease to sin. Sin, in Greek, means to miss the mark. So it's not our mere mortality we are to keep in mind, but the point, the goal, the mark of our life, and whether or not we're aiming at it, hitting it.
Please check out Bishop Barron's homily that I referenced: https://youtu.be/OaeZ3cGlns8?si=_EYEMDGmm0vb3O9U
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