I was born with a logical mind and the thought that we stop "being" after death made no sense to me at all.
Why create this big beautiful universe only to abandon it at the end?
No.
This thing was meant to be explored and populated, which implies that we continue after shedding this container of flesh...
I always struggle with this question as well. A part of me wants to believe that death cannot and should not be the end. It is kind of unfair in a way that there is only a limited scope of things we are able to do in life, while the majority of the universe is out there, just waiting to be explored.
But then, another part tells me that perhaps, it is the end and life happens just by chance! I guess we will never know, or one day we might!!