Can someone translate “Union in life, union in death” for me into Latin please.  (it’s a trade union)  I have a translation but I am not sure it is correct. If someone could help I would appreciate it greatly.

As a dilettante Latinist myself, I feel it’s right to warn you against being too embarrassed and thus to submit your own rough translation for all of us to quiz together afterward—so I gather you entertain some nagging question?

A dilattinite Latinist dilletante in fact.

“Union in life, union in death”

     unioni modo atque post humum insumus.

1.  unioni = “(to our) Union” here in dative singular but classical Latin noun unio has also been correctly demonstrated to mean “carnal intercourse”!

2.  modo = “now” somehow more appropriate to use in the ordinary slogan or motto than synonymous jam or nunc.

3.  atque = “and even” consecutive speech element designed to build upon the preceding narration.

4.  post humum = “after we’re dead” which best illustrates this congenial Latin tendency of making one very subtle understatement: “after burial” so obtained by glossing every word for redolent word.

5.  insumus = “we belong” where ordinary Latin copula sum “(I) am” becomes copulative here with adverbial prefix in “in” and so takes oblique noun unioni “to the union” a classic dative of explicit reference.

     “To our Union we now belong & even after we’re dead!”