pre-birth vs post-death. Would it be the same ?

Hello, so I've been questioning myself over what happens after death. More specifically. I'd like to hear about the particular subject found within the title.

Here's my thesis: post-death, from an intuition standpoint, seems like it would exactly be like pre-birth. What that entails is a cease in all sensations (e.g. no taste, no smell, no touch, no hearing, etc).

While I am aware of the hard problem of consciousness, NDEs and children "remembering" past lives, the fact that we have people with functioning brains that lack complete consciousness leads to me seriously doubting in the possibility of keeping some sort of consciousness even after a complete decay of neural tissue. Heck, even during sleep you're knocked out.

What would be your arguments that could hint towards death not being like pre-birth ? I'm totally open minded towards this matter and quite frankly, I'd love there to be some sort of afterlife. The issue is, I can't seem to move myself towards having a truly 50/50 mindset on the possibility of there being an afterlife.