Had you asked me if I believed in life after death while I was alive, I would have said no.
At the time, I believed that there was simply nothing after death. That the electric activity of your brain stopped, and with it, all that could be called 'you' would go *poof* and disappear.
As it turns out, I was wrong and the various realm of the afterlife would soon tell the punny legends of I, Cyndric, the eco-friendly bedside lamp !