2023-present Series
When I die, what plant will come out of my body?
Ever since I was diagnosed 5 years ago, I started planting in an attempt to understand how tumors grow. Maybe if I learn how they grow, I can figure out how to stop them from growing, or even make them shrink and disappear. With every plant, I learned something new. Then my grandma passed away, followed shortly by my uncle. I had to make sense of it all, so I prepared a funeral, learned how the body is washed and wrapped according to our religion (Islam), and then buried it. Dust to dust. We return to the soil. That soil, fertilized by the decomposition of the dead body, grows flowers and plants. When I die, what will my soil grow? What plant will emerge from my body? This question keeps me up at night.
