final sleep

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Van Gogh’s severed ear also haunts this work, which begins in pain and stays in pain until it frames Artaud’s sought-for final sleep in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, in 1948.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024

John opens the front door and steps out into the quiet tension of his neighborhood’s final sleep cycle.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2011

“She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at twelve o’clock today’ Dr. Gully had written up the cause of death as a “Bilious Fever with typhoid character!’

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

The funereal necrophaga are the only grave-diggers who never carry the dead elsewhere, believing that the least sad, and the most fitting tomb, is the very clay whereon one fell into the final sleep.

From Chantecler Play in Four Acts by Rostand, Edmond

It may have been that I was entering upon my final sleep.

From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Wallace, Dillon