Associations to the word «Deathbed»

Wiktionary

DEATHBED, noun. The bed on which someone dies.
DEATHBED, noun. The last hours before death.
DEATHBED CONVERSION, noun. (set phrase) Acceptance of religious belief immediately before one dies, usually in a last-minute effort to save one's soul or to gain entry into a paradisiacal afterlife.
DEATHBED CONVERSION, noun. (idiomatic) (usually sarcastic) (often politics) An abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.

Dictionary definition

DEATHBED, noun. The last few hours before death.
DEATHBED, noun. The bed on which a person dies.

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn