Examples of deathbed

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No one seeks to put an end to deathbed requests and extralegal promises.
Even these were often infrequent, perhaps made only on one's deathbed.
Often, the decisive scene takes place at those highly popular evangelical locales, the sickroom and the deathbed.
On his deathbed he sent his grandson to summon one of the presbyters.
His interior monologues convey the thoughts that pass through his mind as he lies on his deathbed and reviews his past life with a mixture of pride and guilt.
The needy and the sick themselves also had recourse to the familiar repertoire, as emerges from the description of a deathbed scene in an early eighteenth-century anthology.
They became excluded from unction and from communion except on the deathbed but, more important, they won greater freedom to commit themselves to marriage and the religious life.
The farewell performances that spirits sometimes enacted within seances, though modelled on deathbed scenes within literary culture, are always finally distinct from such scenes because spirits cannot die.
A combination of advance care planning, routine and urgent home care services, and deathbed care at home can reduce exacerbations, cut costs, and be more satisfactory to patient and family.
Investment companies were offering woodlands to wealthy taxpayers on their deathbeds.
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