Reproductive technology now allows children to be born from frozen eggs or sperm of deceased parents—a practice raising urgent questions about inheritance, guardianship, and who has authority to use someone's genetic material after death. The article examines cases and regulatory gaps that currently leave these situations in legal limbo. What's striking is how little most legal systems have adapted: there's no clear answer in most jurisdictions about whether posthumous conception is allowed, who decides, or what rights the resulting child has.