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English writer and women’s rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft was so obsessed with her best friend that after her friend died, Wollstonecraft wore a mourning ring made of her friend’s hair until her own deathbed.
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Laura Mills, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Maybe in the last episode of the series or on her deathbed.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
The pope was literally on his deathbed in his Apostolic Palace apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square, where tens of thousands had gathered in a mass vigil.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Trump’s attempt to undermine Harvard’s independence is probably the biggest shock the university has faced since Harvard College was founded, in 1636; shortly after its establishment, the school received a transformative deathbed bequest from the Puritan John Harvard.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Laura Mills, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
Maybe in the last episode of the series or on her deathbed.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
The pope was literally on his deathbed in his Apostolic Palace apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square, where tens of thousands had gathered in a mass vigil.
—Greg Palkot, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Trump’s attempt to undermine Harvard’s independence is probably the biggest shock the university has faced since Harvard College was founded, in 1636; shortly after its establishment, the school received a transformative deathbed bequest from the Puritan John Harvard.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Deathbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deathbed. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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deathbed
noun
death·bed
-ˌbed 
1
: the bed in which a person dies
2
: the last hours of life
Medical Definition
deathbed
noun
death·bed
ˈdeth-ˌbed
1
: the bed in which a person dies
2
: the last hours of life
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