so, the rev, co wrote a lot of a7x's songs, and they were usually about death.
what if he was trying to tell us and the band, he was going to take his life and to see if we would figure out the puzzle.
for example, brompton cocktail, co written by the rev, if you don't know what a brompton cocktail is, it's basically a mixture of alcohol and drugs, and well, how did the rev die?
he also said "i'm going to become a famous rock star and i'm going to die before i turn 30." at the age of fifteen, fifteen and he did die before then.
maybe afterlife was his way of saying to help him and that fiction was his way of saying that we didn't solve the puzzle in time....