final meal
Condemned prisoner's request
A final meal is the last food eaten before something significant—death, a long journey, or the start of a fast.
The phrase most often refers to the customary last meal offered to a condemned prisoner before execution: He requested fried chicken and apple pie for his final meal.
The term can also describe any last supper before a major life change.
- executionCompleting a planned task
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
- death row inmatePrisoner awaiting execution
- condemnedOfficially declared unfit
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
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- BuddhaSiddhartha, Gautama, Buddha, enlightenment, bodhi
- executionsexecution, execution chamber, hanging, guillotine, executioner
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