death throes

Image: A glowing pair of nearly similar loops of dust and gas mark the death throes of an ancient red-giant star, as captured by Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab.

Image: A glowing pair of nearly similar loops of dust and gas mark the death throes of an ancient red-giant star, as captured by Gemini South, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab.

Ms Pierre feels the country is in its death throes.

Supernovae -- the explosive final death throes of some massive stars -- blast out within hours, and the brightness of the explosion peaks within a few months.

After some minutes her vision returned in time to see Abed-Alrahman in his death throes.