Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Difference between revisions

** Previously, ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' 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 ''[[The Addams Family]] Values'':

'''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.

* ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'': when Om dies in the hospital, a mother gives birth in the next room. The baby turns out to be Om reincarnated.

* [[Species]] builds to it's 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.

'''Arden:''' Holy shit... ''(Sil kills him)'' }}

** ''Species II'' 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 it's mother's bloody corpse.

** The cleansing includes the executions of Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam and Guild Navigator Edric.

* In the movie ''[[Angus]]'', the titular character's father died as his mother gave birth to him.

* 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 ''[[John Q]]'' fits. In this ending, the titular character dies, but his heart is given to his son, who needs a transplant.

* 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 [[Parenthetical Girls]]. After describing the girl's death,

and labor pains would collapse her fragile frame }}

* Going along with the ''[[Lost]]'' entry above, Michael Giacchino even named the music that plays during the montage "Life and Death"