Death: “a gate-way to a realm immeasurably higher and nobler” - 6 September 1973

In His Tablets Bahá'u'lláh says that were we able to comprehend the felicities that await us in the world to come, death would lose its sting; nay rather we would welcome it as a gate-way to a realm immeasurably higher and nobler than this home of suffering we call our earth. You should therefore think of their blessings and comfort yourself for your momentary separation. In time all of us will join our departed ones and share their joys. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (Written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, dated January 13, 1932, in an unpublished compilation, "Life After Death," enclosed with a letter from the Universal House of Justice, dated September 6, 1973; compilation: Developing Distinctive Baha’i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)