carol from london says my husband is an atheist and died. do you think he is being punished for his disbelief. were you a believer before your experience? >> i had believed for much of my life, but because of a rejection by my birth family in 2000, i had lost all my belief in a loving personal god and in prayer for eight years before my coma. and her husband is not being punished because god loves each and every one of us very deeply. in fact, it is that intense love for us that drives his wanting, her wanting for us to have that belief. >> brian: but you think it's important to believe in god while on earth? >> it's important because it gives us that gift and that grace. that god loves us so much that yes, of course it helps to have that belief because god doesn't want to feel the pain of our forgetting about the divine. >> brian: peter from toms river, new jersey says when in heaven,