On the Baha'i Laws for Burial: Katya really liked them

What's in your wallet? If you have a Baha'i ID, what's on the back? -gw

"Cemetary, where many Bahai's are buried,"uploaded on October 15, 2006 by christine.adgirl on flickr

katya and i were sitting and waiting for the econ finals to be passed out and she started sifting through my wallet.

"what are the baha'i laws for burial?"

she had found my baha'i id, which has a request on the back that i be buried according to the baha'i laws of burial if something were to happen. uuum.... i couldn't really remember. i knew there was something about how far you can be buried from the site of your death.

"really like that"

and we launched into a discussion about how we perceive death and deal with it in our culture. death... or loss in general. why do we have so much trouble letting go of things when they're gone? just because something or someone isn't with us anymore doesn't mean all that we had is lost. katya described how, her only memory of all her cousins being together in one place at the same time was at a family member's funeral... so, in addition to being too attached to people lost, how is it that we forget to make the time for each other when we're still here? and then she said something enlightening...

"sometimes we just too caught up thinking about what could have been, instead of appreciating what was"

then our final started and we stopped talking. that's not meant to be deep, lol, it just happened.

Dorri, What Was," Ponderings

{Re-posted with permission}