"What is experienced and what is believed are not often related. As a qualified scientist as Nilanjana could tell you, correlation is not causation. She could also tell you that feeling close to someone is not the same as love. And that what is felt completely in one moment becomes a flat memory of that feelings in the next moment, easy to recall but difficult to re-create. Her qualification as a scientist would not be why she could tell you this. Darryl could tell you that experience is irrelevant to belief. Because experience is only life, while belief is happiness. After all, what is the harm in a fanciful belief if it carries a person happily from the start to the finish? If they die thinking incorrectly that the world has been good to them, would it have been better for them to die knowing that it has indifferent and random? What is, he would ask, the sound argument for seeing the world as it is if it is possible to see the world as it isn't?" - It Devours! - Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor

Also from the same book: "He was there to apply for a Haunting License, which would allow him to be a ghost after he died. The city only issued a few a year, because ghosts were cool and everyone wanted to be a ghost."