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

After long travelling I felt very drowsy, and had thoughts of sitting down, which had I done, without doubt I had fallen on my final sleep.

From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by Raymond, W. O. (William Odber)

The exasperated master rose from his final sleep, and gave his instructions.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa