Reply #3: There are many, many

[SheilaT]

such stories, and dozens of books written about the topic.

For me personally, I am convinced that there's an afterlife and there we figure out the lessons we learned or should have learned in this lifetime and we prepare to come back to try again, so that our soul can advance.

There are plenty here who simply don't believe any of that, and I'm not about to try to convince them. They're capable of making their own decisions and choices about what to believe, about what is convincing to them.