Who Believes In An Afterlife?

The eternal question, isn't it? We never really know what comes after death. Afterlife is a pretty literal term. You are alive, and then you aren't. Death is impossible to describe, because once it occurs, if there is something after, we can't see it, touch it, or experience it while living. So, it requires an unreasoning belief that we call faith. You either have it, or you don't. I think that most of us vacillate back and forth between belief and doubt for most of our lives. In my poems I express it in a line something like: "None of us know what lies on the other side of midnight". A belief in something that can't be empirically proven is the "Doubting Thomas" meme, and I suspect that no one since Thomas has had the offer he got. So, what to do? I guess we will all have to trust that we are living our lives in the best way that we can. Isn't that what faith is all about, anyway? We won't know for sure until it is too late. Live a virtuous life anyway.