The most distinctive Baha'i funerary provision is a rule about geography. The body is to be buried within an hour's journey from the place of death. The measure is deliberately elastic, since an hour meant something different by camel than it does by car, and Baha'i institutions have read it as a limit that moves with the means of travel available. What it does not permit is carrying a body home across a continent.
The consequence is quiet and considerable. A Baha'i who dies far from where they were born is buried where they died, among the community they were actually living in, and Baha'i cemeteries and burial plots exist in a great many countries as a result. In a religion whose members are frequently far from their place of origin, and whose Persian founding community was scattered by persecution, the rule reads as a statement that the place a person ends up is not a lesser place.
Cremation is not permitted, and embalming is discouraged where law allows the choice. The reasoning given in Baha'i writings turns on the dignity of a body that has housed a soul, and on letting its dissolution follow its own course. Around these fixed points the practice is unelaborated. There are no funeral rites of passage in stages, no mourning grades, no fixed period of seclusion, and no prescribed anniversary observance.