Do you believe in life after death? [Spirituality & Religion]

@SW-User Although I don't believe any of our religious stories are true-to-life, I admire faithful people who recognize the difference between faith and fact. Wish there were more of them.

This poem by Stephen Crane moved me deeply in my teens.

A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it --
It was clay.

Now this is the strange part:
When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.