final sleep
The last slumber
Final sleep is a poetic euphemism for death, casting the end of life as peaceful rest from which one doesn't wake.
The phrase appears in elegies, epitaphs, and consoling speech: She has gone to her final sleep.
It softens mortality by associating it with the familiar, nonthreatening act of sleeping.
- eternal restEuphemism for death
- deathCessation of life
- passingMoving by or temporary
- passed awayDied, said gently
- slumberLight, restful unconsciousness
demise · peaceful · at peace · grave · coffin · mourning · silence · stillness · requiem · departed · gone home · last breath · meet your maker · repose · afterlife · laid to rest · funeral · dust to dust
- death symbolsskull, skeleton, coffin, tombstone, gravestone