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In the past, people's attitude to death was different: life was considered from the perspective of death; the hour-glass was the reminder, the 'memento mori', the constant and vivid representation of our transitoriness and the proof of how relative is earthly longing for happiness. We must remember that for Baha'is, too, this is the right attitude for death, which terminates this earthly life, is at the same time, the gateway to true life into which we are born. Here man is suddenly faced with what he has done on earth, with the divine perfections he has achieved, in a word with what he is. Now it is that he has to account for his life on earth.
(38:1)
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