big sleep

Apparently coined by novelist Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep (1939).

• "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that."
• "Before I sink into the big sleep / I want to hear / The scream of the butterfly"

• dirt nap
• sleep of the just
• death
• celestial transfer
• decease
• decomposition
• defunction
• dematerialization
• demise
• dirt nap
• doom
• exit
• expiration
• fatality
• liquidation
• mortality
• passing
• quietus
• repose
• sleep of the just
• sunset
• the big sleep
• crash
• downfall
• fall
• (the) bane
• (the) end