![]() ![]() This state is prolonged for Vollman, Bevins and many others but children are meant to move quickly on to the next life, sometimes in a matter of minutes. This is the bardo of Tibetan Buddhism, a state of transition between death and rebirth into the next life. They refer to their buried bodies, which they are forced to return to in the daytime, as sick-forms and their coffins as sick-boxes. ![]() Like numerous other residents of the cemetery, they are many years dead but have not accepted this fact, instead considering themselves to be unwell and hoping for recovery any day. It begins with two residents of the cemetery watching the departure of those who had been present at the funeral-Hans Vollman, a man in a platonic marriage who died after being crushed by a beam at the point where his wife had decided to alter their platonic state, and Roger Bevins III, a young man who discovered the beauty of life only as he ended it by suicide. Lincoln in the Bardo takes place over several nights following his funeral. ![]() On 25 February 1862, following his death from typhoid, Willie Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was buried in the family vault of Judge William Carroll in the Oak Hill cemetery in Georgetown. ![]()
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