Why do people consider no afterlife "more logical"?

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My issue with it is that it just seems too perfect. It seems designed to solve what I see as the core problem, which is this:

Our brains interpret the world around us by collecting sensory input. We can only speculate about things we haven't experienced in terms of those sensory inputs. Trying to think about our own death is like trying to think about a colour that doesn't exist.

It seems likely to me that our brains are simply unable to deal with the concept of a complete absence of input. Does not compute. Rather than freak out we come up with ways that input can still be received. This, perhaps, is the true function of the 'soul', to receive and process input when the brain dies.

So I don't think the afterlife is anything more than a conceptual space into which can project ourselves when we leave this space because not existing is profoundly unacceptable to the human brain.

But I fear the truth is that we don't leave this space at all.

not enough information to answer the question of "why".

correlation versus causation is difficult to separate, in statistics.

different people consider different things "logical".

logic could be used to justify anything.

strangers on the Internet are not telepathic.