Within an episode (or chapter or scene), someone is born or a pregnancy is revealed and someone else dies, emphasizing the cycle of life. A supertrope of DeathByChildbirth, but includes all the cases where the death is ''not'' the mother. Compare BabiesEverAfter, DeadGuyJunior, SomeoneToRememberHimBy. ThePhoenix is a symbol of the motif.

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Ben and Cross's puppies are born right after a bloody battle in ''GingaNagareboshiGin''. Notably, Kisaragi's own puppies were killed by the bears during it.
* When a Franchise/{{Digimon}} dies, their data is recycled into a new Digiegg.
* When it depicts the bombing of Hiroshima itself, ''BarefootGen'' features Gen helping his mother Kimie give birth to his sister Tomoko within pages of the rest of the immediate family burning to death in the ruins of their home. Sadly, baby Tomoko does not survive, because Kimie is starving and her milk dries up as a result.
* In ''MillenniumActress'', Chiyoko is born in a great earthquake that took her father's life. Chiyoko expresses the belief that [[HeroicSacrifice he died so she could be born]].
* In ''{{Bokurano}}'', [[{{Bokukko}} Maki Anou's]] battle happens around the time her baby brother is born. With the power of Zearth, she's able to witness it before she dies, even getting to briefly hold the newborn in her arms.
* The end of ''RomeoXJuliet'' mixes this with BabiesEverAfter, as Romeo and Juliet die but the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue shows the BetaCouple of Benvolio and Cordelia with their firstborn.
* This technically happened in ''DragonballZ'', where Goku got Chi Chi pregnant just before dying in the Cell games, but it's not shown that Chi Chi had a son (Goten) until several episodes later (seven years in the storyline).
* In the fast-paced anime movie ''DeadLeaves'', one of the focuses is on the conception, birth, aging and death of the main characters' baby, all in one day!
* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', Akasaka's wife dies (from falling down the stairs while pregnant, so it's not exactly DeathByChildbirth) but the baby survives.
* In ''AyashiNoCeres'', it is revealed the Aya is pregnant just as Toya, the father, is being killed by Mikage. He ''does'' live to tell (but barely) due to being the [[MacGuffinGirl Mac Guffin Boy]], but later he explains to Yuuhi that he ''is'' slowly dying anyway as his powers are fading away, and with them, his life.
* In ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'', Momoka Oginome dies the same day when her baby sister Ringo ''and'' the Takakura boys are born.
* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' Kurenai is revealed to be pregnant after Asuma is killed.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Lifedeath II (ComicBook/{{X-Men}} #198. Famous Windsor-Smith 1980's story.)
* ''WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'': Franchise/{{Batman}}'s spirit is guided to whatever awaits by a vision of his mother Martha, before the final splash page shows the birth of Bruce Wayne, emphasizing the theme that Batman is something of a permanent fixture in Gotham City.
* Lampshaded in ''TheMaxx'' - the Leopard Queen dies, but baby leopards appear in Julie's Outback, leading her to comment, "laying it on a little thick, aren't we?"
* There are several examples in ''ElfQuest'' comics.
** There's a moment in ''The Rebels'' where the gang is led to believe that the funeral over the death of one colonist will include the sacrifice of a boy as well. Turns out it's just his coming-of-age ceremony... but the ceremony developed from a time when they did kill someone to "accompany" the dead, in part to ease a situation of overcrowding and low resources.
** In ''Shards'', Krim and Skot declare before a battle that they kind of want to die this time, as they think they lived long enough for ones of their tribe. After Skot manages just that, Krim is all the more determined to die of her wounds until she's told that she's pregnant. After that she wants to live to protect the child and she does.
*** There's also a Recognition (inducing pregnancy) at the beginning of that storyline, as well as the death of another elf during the fights, so it evens out perfectly across the arc, for the elves at least.
** In the story ''Rogue's Challenge'', the Wolfrider elders discuss this cycle of life, making the lack of death, or at least danger, responsible for a lack of births. [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/HY/HY09.5/DisplayHY09.5.html?page=9]]
* The final issue of the (supposedly) final ''LoveAndCapes'' mini-series deals with the death of Windstar, a member of the Liberty League, and also Mark and Abby's Real Estate Agent, in which role he has been prominent throughout the previous four issues. After the League's memorial gathering, Amazonia tells Abby that the tradition on her world is for mourners to undertake "life-affirming" activities. Abby thinks this is a good idea and suggests it to Mark once they're at home again. The issue (and series) ends with Abby announcing that she's pregnant.
* The last page of the ''SquadronSupreme'' miniseries features the surviving Squadron members mourning the loss of their dead members in the morgue, as well as Arcanna successfully giving birth to her fourth child as the very last panel.
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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* In a ''Disney/TheLionKing'' FanFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5959382/1/Pride_Lands_Generations Pride Lands: Generations]]'', one character (the LargeAndInCharge king) was [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath torn apart by a pack of jackals]] while the StarcrossedLovers were conceiving their cub--[[MoodWhiplash with intercuts between the scenes]]. The fact the dying character [[LikeFatherLikeSon was the ancestor of Mufasa and Simba]], while those having sex were [[StartOfDarkness the ancestors of Zira]], only made the juxtaposition all the more meaningful. Looking back, it seems horribly {{Anvilicious}} now, but it seemed like a good idea at the time--it's the Circle of Life, after all.
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2451057/1/Warriors_Secret Warrior's Secret]]'', Meta Knight dies and in the next chapter Fumu and Bun's younger sibling is born (and [[DeadGuyJunior named in honor of the dead character]]). But considering the nature of Star Warriors...
* In ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret'', [[ActionGirl Mary Watson]] discovers her pregnancy while on her quest to find [[TheWatson her husband]]. She soon discovers that Dr. Watson has been killed, and that [[BigBad Colonel Moran]] now wishes [[AvengingTheVillain to get revenge]] on SherlockHolmes by [[RevengeByProxy murdering her and her child.]]
* In Chapter 13 of the ''{{Superjail}}'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8803490/1/Extended-Stay Extended Stay]]'', the priest in charge is captured, seduced, and killed by one of the female inmates while [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere trying to escape the riot that is going on at the Warden and the Mistress's wedding]]. At the same time, Mistress is in [[MaternityCrisis preterm labor]] and eventually gives birth to [[UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn surprise twins]].
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[[folder:Film - Animated]]
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'', definitely. Simba is born and baptized (for lack of a better word) at the beginning, Mufasa dies towards the middle of the movie, and then Simba and Nala have a new daughter (Kiara) who is baptized at the end of the movie.
** [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "It's the CIIIIIRCLE of LIIIIIFE..."]]
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[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* The dramatic climax of ''Franchise/StarWars III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. Padme dies immediately after Luke and Leia are born, and Darth Vader is "reborn" as Anakin Skywalker "dies". Darth Vader's first breath is juxtaposed against Padme's last.
* The baptism/execution sequence from the end of ''Film/TheGodfather'' where Michael became the Godfather in both senses of the term. OK. Not quite a birth, but close enough.
* ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'': Dillon gives the speech about rebirth as Newt and Hicks are cremated just as the new Alien is reborn.
* ''SteelMagnolias''.
* ''Film/TurnerAndHooch''.
* In the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' movie, James Kirk is born in the opening sequence seconds before his father dies.
** Previously, ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' did a variation where the shots of Kirk racing to get to Spock before he dies are intercut with the birth of the Genesis planet.
* Referenced in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily Values'':
-->'''Morticia:''' Children, do you believe that when a new child is born, one of the older children must die?
-->'''Wednesday and Pugsley:''' Yes.
-->'''Morticia:''' That's just not true.
-->'''Grandmama:''' (sigh) Not anymore.
* In the 2009 remake of ''Children Of The Corn'', the main character stumbles around a cornfield, finding the dead bodies of all the evil cult members he'd killed. Interspliced with this scene is another of a creepy ceremony where the cult gathers around to watch one of their members knock up the obligatory horror-flick naked babe. Technically more a '''Conception'''/Death Juxtaposition than Birth/Death, but close enough.
* At the end of ''TheBigLebowski'' the Dude's annoying friend Donny dies of cardiac infarction and the narrator later tells us that Maude is pregnant.
* In the beginning of the 2009 film ''Evil Angel'' (with VingRhames), a crazed man haunted by Lilith commits suicide by jumping off of a building. Inside of that building, a woman gives birth at the exact time the man dies.
* ''Bollywood/OmShantiOm'': when Om dies in the hospital, a mother gives birth in the next room. The baby turns out to be Om reincarnated.
* ''Film/{{Species}}'' builds to its climax with the sexy alien getting pregnant and killing the father immediately afterwards. We even get to see her nasty alien spikes growing out of her back, getting ready for the kill, while she tells her sperm donor he's gonna be a daddy.
--> ''(Sil and Arden have just finished having sex. Sil suddenly looks ecstatic)''
--> '''Sil:''' I felt it. It's started!
--> '''Arden:''' What's started?
--> '''Sil:''' Life!
--> '''Arden:''''' (Laughing)'' Oh my darling girl! I know in some cultures women claim they know the exact moment of conception, but really...
--> '''Sil:''' Don't you believe me? Here, feel! ''(Places Arden's hand on her belly)''
--> '''Arden:''' Holy shit... ''(Sil kills him)''
** ''SpeciesII'' shows this connection even more directly, where we get to see women impregnated by an alien dying giving birth to their gruesome offspring. Other scenes simply show the alien baby sitting beside its mother's bloody corpse.
* ''Bollywood/KuchKuchHotaHai'' starts with the birth of Anjali and the death of her mother Tina.
* In the movie ''{{Angus}}'', the titular character's father died as his mother gave birth to him.
-->'''Angus Bethune''': My mother was in labor with me for two days, but it was my father who died during childbirth. He had a heart attack waiting for her to deliver.
* After Sandra Bullock's character's husband dies in ''{{Premonition}}'', the ending shows her pregnant a few months later, with the child that she conceived with her husband the night before he died.
* Not exactly to the trope, but the alternative(original) ending of ''JohnQ'' fits. In this ending, the titular character dies, but his heart is given to his son, who needs a transplant.
* ''TerminatorSalvation'', while technically not ending in a "birth", per se, ends with Marcus giving his heart to a fatally wounded John Connor.
* A twisted subversion occurs in the remake of ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'', wherein one of the refugees was hugely pregnant when she was bitten by a zombie. She turns into a zombie, and her husband just keeps her tied up in a back room until she gives birth... to an infant who is also a zombie.
* ''Film/InAmerica'' is climaxing in a hospital scene showing the birth of the new baby and the death of Mateo.
* In ''MaryAndMax'', Mary and her baby arrive to visit Max just after he's died.
* The TearJerker Cleansing of the House montage from the end of the first ''Children of Dune'' film (which, incidentally, ''combines'' this trope with DeathByChildbirth), all set to the tune of a OneWomanWail.
** The cleansing includes the executions of Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and Guild Navigator Edric.
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[[folder:Folk Lore]]
* There's a legend that when someone is born under the sign of Scorpio, someone in the family has just died or is about to die, and when a Scorpio dies there is a birth in the family.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''TheCulture'' have a custom of doing this whenever somebody dies of old age. Of course, being ''TheCulture'', they don't really ''have'' to die. It's just social expectation for them to die of old age after a long life. And it isn't necessarily a birth; it could be somebody being resurrected from long-term electronic storage.
* In Creator/OrsonScottCard's ''Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker'' series, Alvin has six older brothers, making him the [[MagicalSeventhSon seventh son of a seventh son]]... but the eldest brother, Vigor, dies moments after Alvin's birth. In fact, the only reason he didn't die before Alvin was born was because he clung to life out of sheer determination to make sure Alvin would be born as a seventh son of a seventh son, and thus have the Knack of Making.
* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/IWillFearNoEvil'', this happens to the [[GenderBender bent protagonist at the end as s/he dies in giving birth]].
* In ''[[Creator/StephenKing The Stand]]'', one of the survivors of the superflu is a pregnant woman who gives birth after most of the human population is wiped out.
* In Lois Lowry's ''Anastasia Krupnik'', the titular character's grandmother died on the same day as her baby brother is born.
* In the beginning of Nora Roberts' ''Born in Shame'', Shannon's mother dies in New York as Brianna gives birth in Ireland.
* Used in the first book of ''TheDarkElfTrilogy''. While his family was in the midst of a stealth attack on a rival house, Drizzt was born minutes before his eldest brother, Nalfein, was stabbed from behind by middle brother Dinin. The tenets of drow society cause the two parts of this trope to be linked, as the only reason Drizzt was not sacrificed moments later was ''because'' his brother had died: if a newborn male child would result in three or more living male children, then every third such birth must be sacrificed. Nalfein's death put the Do'Urden family under the limit, and Drizzt lived to see another day.
* This is the story behind Miracle, the protagonist of the novel ''Dancing on the Edge'', whose mother was hit by an ambulance, but Miracle survived. Later we find out that her mother was attempting to commit suicide and stepped in front of the ambulance on purpose.
* In the ''Literature/AdrianMole'' series, elderly Queenie dies shortly after Adrian's sister is born, and at the funeral he reflects that Queenie must have died so as to "make way" for the baby.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' (of course) has a symbolic 'rebirth' (surviving the first attempt on his life, and being adopted) the same night his parents are murdered. Later on, Cedric Diggory is killed before Voldemort's resurrection (which involves nearly killing Harry, again). There's also Trelawney's prophecy, connecting Harry and Voldemort in birth and death. And just to make sure the [[{{Anvilicious}} symbolism is clear]], the two of them also are linked by phoenix feathers in their wands. Also, the birth of Teddy Lupin followed closely by the deaths of his parents.
* In DeanKoontz' ''Life Expectancy'', protagonist Jimmy is born at the same minute his grandfather dies.
* Not birth exactly, but similar: in ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath,'' Rose of Sharon (who's pregnant) and her husband have sex as the family arrives in California. When they get there they discover the grandmother is dead, and Rose of Sharon is horrified as she considers the juxtaposition.
* In N. Perumow's ''Hierward Chronicles'', there are Elemental Mages, which are personalized powers. Those powers can only belong to one generation, so if one of the mages has children, they all begin to lose their powers and die (unless they can secure some auxiliary magic source, but even they are vulnerable, whereas before they just re-spawned if killed). Conversely, if all Mage are wiped out, new are spawned by magic.
* ''Literature/SongOfSolomon'' begins with a man named Robert Smith on the roof of the hospital, falling to his death as he attempts to fly with a suit he has created. One of the women in the crowd of onlookers goes into labor, and the next day gives birth to the protagonist, Milkman, becomes the first black child born in that same hospital. He then grows up and learns to fly himself. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Sort of/maybe]].
* Enforced out of necessity, due to limited resources, at the beginning of Creator/RobertSilverberg's ''At Winter's End''. Almost no one's allowed to conceive a child to begin with; the few who ''are'' allowed to procreate are required to wait until someone's committed ritual suicide at the allotted age.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': Cinderpelt dies shortly before Cinderkit is born.
* Used towards the end of ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The End]]'', the final book of ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''. [[BigBad Count Olaf]] (whose ContractualBossImmunity seemed to have finally expired) dies right before Kit Snicket (implied to have been related to the LemonyNarrator) gives birth to her child, and Kit herself dies soon afterward.
* In ''Literature/AYellowRaftInBlueWater'', Christine Taylor's daughter Rayona is born around the time she receives word that her brother Lee dies in Vietnam.
* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': PlayedWith, since Jenna is rescued by Marcia just as the Queen dies, and she is adopted by the Heaps just as ''their'' child dies.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Done in the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' series finale. D'Argo dies right after Aeryn gives birth [[PregnantBadass during a battle]]. [[DeadGuyJunior They decide to name the kid after him]].
* The first episode (33) of the series proper of the new ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' has people dying left and right throughout, and in the very last scene the characters get word that a baby was born in the fleet.
* In ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', KidFromTheFuture Chris dies while he is born. (It makes sense in context.)
* In the final episode of ''DesperateHousewives'' there is a montage that intercuts the final moments of Mrs. Mccluskey with the birth of Julie's daughter.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': when Phoebe's grandmother dies, Monica rushes in and tells the group that a couple is having sex in a car outside. The rest of the gang tries to tell her that now isn't the time; but Phoebe isn't that disappointed. "It's kinda cool. 'Cause it's like, you know, one life ends and another begins." Monica leans down and whispers to the others, "Not the way they're doing it."
* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the episode where the story is about the death of Pierce's mother, Abed's story in the background is about a Greendale student going into labor.
* ''GrowingPains'': in the episode in which Chrissy is born, Ben befriends an elderly patient, Chris, who dies.
* ''HomeAndAway'' - Kitt's baby is born, but then she finds out Beth (her mother) has just been hit by a truck.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': "Do No Harm." Boone dies, and Aaron is born.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In "Newborn King." The poor woman gives birth in the backseat of a broken down car, parked in a gas station garage, in a blizzard, on Christmas, [[FromBadToWorse during a shootout with Russian mercenaries who want to kill her and kidnap her child]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking with]] ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Gibbs]]'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as the midwife.]] This is interspersed with a desperately outnumbered and outgunned Ziva singlehandedly defending them against an onslaught of Russian mercenaries.
* Toyed with in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Dr. Cox doesn't want his daughter's birth to be announced until later, over concern that her birth will forever be associated with Laverne's death. His son Jack's birthday had already been associated with Ben's death in an earlier episode; rather than having a birthday party the had planned for him, they had a [[TearJerker funeral]].
** JD explicitly states that this is one of the beautiful things about working in a hospital in the episode "My Philosophy", such as patients receiving life-saving donor organs from someone who just died or (unfortunately) the possible death of either a mother or child to save the other's life. He refers to it as the "circle of life" (he likes that lion cub).
* In the same episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'' where Big Bird finds out Mr. Hooper died, there's also a segment where Big Bird (after hanging his drawing of Mr. Hooper on his wall as a memorial to him) is introduced to a friend's new baby.
* ''Series/MadMen'': One episode after the death of her father Eugene, Betty Draper gives birth to a son (all the while seeing hallucinations of her recently-deceased dad). [[DeadGuyJunior She decides to call him Eugene]].
* Among the guest stars on ''Series/RobinHood'' was a mother and daughter; as the daughter is giving birth to her own child, her mother (having been accused of witchcraft) is being dunked in the lake. Averted considering the mother is saved, but her near-execution is inter-cut with scenes of her daughter in labour.
* The final episode of ''SixFeetUnder'' [[ColdOpen begins]] with a birth, while [[OncePerEpisode every previous episode]] began with a death. Played with by having the baby barely live through birth, though he turns out fine in the end.
* In the infamous "Love's Labor Lost" episode of ''{{ER}}'', a woman dies in childbirth. This is played out even more literally in the episode "Great Expectations"--as Carol gives birth, an elderly woman in the room next door dies of renal failure.
* In the third season finale of ''PrivatePractice'' Maya (who is pregnant) and her midwife, Dell, are hit by a drunk driver. The baby is born prematurely and survives, Dell dies.
* ''BarneyMiller'' had a New Year's Eve episode like this. An extremely pregnant lady is brought into the station house as Fish goes out to talk a suicidal man from jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. The pregnant lady gives birth in Barney's office, helped by Liz and Wojo, who's had experience in Vietnam. Fish returns, looking haggard. Greeted with "Hey, we had a baby!" he replies "You win one, you lose one."
* ''LawAndOrderUK'': DS Ronnie Brooks gushes to partner DS Matt Devlin about the birth of his grandson. Within minutes, Devlin is gunned down in a drive-by shooting.
* ''DesigningWomen'' does this. There's a baby being born and an older lady dying, and a teary scene with Dolly Parton as an angel.
* In the Dutch drama series ''Dokter Deen'', this is done very, very blatantly. The titular doctor is asked by the former principal of the orphanage she was in to "help her die" before the cancer does. After consulting another doctor about this, she is given the green light to euthanise the old woman and doctor Deen talks to her for a few moments before administering the medication... only to be interrupted in their talk by a phone call about another of her patients, who is going into labor.
* On ''{{The X-Files}}'' episode "Existence," the scene where Scully gives birth is cut with scenes of a high-speed chase that ends with Alex Krycek's death.
** In "Paper Clip", the trope is directly referenced by Navajo medicine man Albert Hosteen, who says that each time a life begins on Earth another must end. Scully's sister Melissa, who was shot in the previous episode, spends most of this one hospitalized, and Hosteen takes the birth of a white buffalo calf within his reservation as a bad sign.
* In the first episode of ''Series/TheCityHunter'', Yun Sung's birth is intercut with the carnage of a bomb aimed at the Korean President.
* In ''DowntonAbbey'', Matthew Crawley, who dies shortly after his wife Mary gives birth.
* ''Series/CallTheMidwife'' absolutely loves this trope - it occurs basically once an episode (unsurprising, given the subject matter).
* In the first season finale of ''TheBorgias'', Lucrezia gives birth in Rome while a plague hits Naples.
* The first season finale of ''Series/{{Continuum}}'' features both the death and the birth of Edouard Kagame, [[TimeTravel in that order]].
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/ElvisPresley's "In the Ghetto" chronicles a guy's life from birth to his murder, and as he dies, another baby is born, with the suggestion that [[TearJerker his fate will be the same]].
* The main theme of Music/{{Live}}'s "Lightning Crashes".
* Edwin's "Alive" explicitly evokes the trope in one line.
* "And When I Die", by Blood, Sweat, and Tears
* Not ''quite'' the same, but Bruce Springsteen's "Reason to Believe" has a verse that begins with a baby being baptized, and ends with a man being buried.
* A similar theme in "The Weight She Fell Under" by ParentheticalGirls. After describing the girl's death,
-->Strange, this would come at the same age
-->that your mother took his name
-->and labor pains would collapse her fragile frame
* Going along with the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' entry above, Michael Giacchino even named the music that plays during the montage "Life and Death"
* Done in "The Breath You Take" by GeorgeStrait. The narrator's father takes his last breath in the same day that the narrator's son is born.
* Dave Matthews Band's song "Funny the Way it Is," includes a reference to this among other things.
* In Pink Floyd's ''The Wall'' (both the album and the film), at the end of the song "In The Flesh?" we hear an airplane coming down for a bombing dive, implying (at least on the album) the death of Pink's father, and just right after, the sound of Pink crying, announcing his birth to the world at the beginning of "The Thin Ice".
* The second verse of "Two Teardrops" by Steve Wariner:
-->Last night I sat in the waiting room
-->The nurse walked in and gave me the news
-->It's a baby girl and they're both fine
-->An old man sittin' not 10 feet away
-->Just lost his wife and he said to me
-->You've got a brand new angel and I've lost mine
-->I guess the good Lord giveth and the good Lord taketh away
-->And we both wiped a teardrop from our face…
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* Embrace's MusicVideo for "All You Good Good People" does this with the execution of a condemned murderer followed by the birth of a baby.
* "Everytime" by Britney Spears. She got better.
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[[folder:Mythology]]
* Many mythological creatures exist - namely ThePhoenix. In fact, a lot of the references you have are references to the cycle. Including anything that has a phoenix in it.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The final scene of ''The Insect Play''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShiningForceIII'' it is referenced that Gracia was born at the moment that Julian's father died.
* Unicorns in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' apparently work like this. The instant one dies, another is born.
* The ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'' Sound Stage where [[{{Doppelganger}} the Materials]] meet the ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS StrikerS]]'' cast during the time of ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid Vivid]]'' reveal that, in the ''A's Portable'' AlternateTimeline, [[spoiler:Reinforce Eins]] died shortly after the birth of Reinforce Zwei.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''DMFA'', there are always 2,438,165 [[TheFairFolk Fae]]. When one dies, their relatives get to auction the rights to have a kid, or a random Fae becomes a parent all of a sudden.
* In ''AndersLovesMaria'', the titular Maria gives birth and dies, while one of the other characters is busy catapulting herself off a bridge.
* In ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', a [[HalfHumanHybrid human with]] [[ElementalEmbodiment fire-elemental]] [[HalfHumanHybrid blood]] passes their life force onto their first child. They grow weaker as the child grows older, and die when the child is about 12 years old. Surma Carver was one such person; her daughter Antimony only learns of these facts, and that she'll go through the same thing as well, three years after Surma's death.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', we see Avatar Roku's death a hundred years ago, followed by a scene of the birth of Aang. More generally, whenever an Avatar dies the next Avatar is born within the hour.
** Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Pema's baby is born on the same day that the Equalists attack Republic City. The "death" in this case is not that of a person but of Republic City (as we know it, anyway).
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'', the [[PlantAliens Petalars]] are introduced as a new baby is born. A wizened elder welcomes him into the world with a philosophic FinalSpeech, then peacefully collapses and withers away moments later.
* Season 11 of the ''TheSimpsons'' has this in a way. Shortly after the birth of the Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets, Maude Flanders is written off seven episodes later.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* A real life example - this man once wrote into a magazine about how his wife suffered a fatal injury during a motorcycling accident. She died, but their son was born prematurely.
* In superb Real Life situations of nightmares, at least two or three women near the end of pregnancy have been murdered by other women (usually the killer has medical training) in order to cut out and steal their children.
* [[TearJerker A young British man was murdered at a bus stop while going to see his new baby in hospital.]]
* In a less tragic example, two of the earliest users of the internet itself were the military... [[TheRuleOfFirstAdopters and the porn industry]].
* As a child, [[{{Surrealism}} Surrealist]] artist Max Ernst's pet bird died just before his sister was born. He thereafter associated himself with a bird.
* A story from a Pakistan Earthquake. A woman was found dead in the rubble, but her newborn in her arms was safe.
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