Flajani speaks of a case in which a child was delivered at the death of its mother, and some of the older Italian writers discuss the advisability of the operation in the moribund state before death actually ensues.

Heister writes of the delivery of the child after the death of the mother by opening the abdomen and uterus.
Harris relates several interesting examples.

In Peru in 1794 a Sambi woman was killed by lightning, and the next day the abdomen was opened by official command and a living child was extracted.

The Princess von Swartzenberg, who was burned to death at a ball in Paris in 1810, was said to have had a living child removed from her body the next day.
Like all similar instances, this was proved to be false, as her body was burned beyond the possibility of recognition, and, besides, she was only four months pregnant.

Harris mentions another case of a young woman who threw herself from the Pont Neuf into the Seine.