Stanley Hauerwas

My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her 'effects' after she had died. It was then that I discovered my original birth certificate, which indicated the previous birth.

American Theologian

Abhinav Shukla

Our short film 'Bareilly Ki Beti' is inspired from the incident which occurred in Bareilly, where a couple while digging a grave for their stillborn found a live baby girl buried two to three feet down. She was rushed to the hospital and she survived.

Indian Actor

David Jason

I'm a twin, but only I emerged live from the womb. The fact that I was originally one half of a duo gave rise to a theory, much propounded in newspaper profiles, that my life has been one desperate effort to compensate for that stillborn brother.

English Actor

Maxine Kumin

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

American Poet

James Brown

I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back.

American Musician

Bonnie Tyler

I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.

Welsh Musician

The term is emotionally charged; handle discussions respectfully due to the sensitive nature of infant loss.

Sensitive Subject

Primarily used in medical or formal discussions about pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Medical Context

Clearly differentiate stillborn from miscarriage, which occurs before 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Not a Miscarriage

Stillborn can metaphorically describe anything inactive or failing at the start, not just literal birth.

Metaphoric Use

Using stillborn in metaphors implies no chance of revival or success, signifying a definitive end.

Implication of Finality

Commonly used in business or project settings to describe efforts that fail before achieving results.

Business and Projects

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 And the reason it nearly killed me with joy is that I'd never known a joy like that. I'd never been in a room like that. My mother never went to college. And my creative career to that point was a sort of small, sad, stillborn thing.

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 Though there was no evidence to support any of these claims, belief in witches became widespread. A witch hunt often began with a a failed harvest, a sick cow, or a stillborn child.