The word "deathbed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "deathbed" to refer to a sick person's bed when they are near death. For example: "The old man laid on his deathbed, waiting for his final moments."
But for those who mind most, complaining about poor deathbed treatment is unusually difficult.
It is perhaps the most poignant deathbed in English literature: the poet John Keats, on February 23rd 1821, released at last still only 25 from a body in which doctors are amazed he has been able to live at all, with the thoracic cavity blackened and the lungs destroyed.
His hardline defence minister, Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as "the crocodile", was said to be hatching a deathbed succession deal.
Mr Kovtun met Mr Litvinenko with Mr Lugovoi and is also suffering from radioactive poisoning.Blackmail; deathbed conversion to Islam; the Yukos oil company; and a football stadium: all these have been added to the swirl of rumour that surrounds Mr Litvinenko's death.
From teenage years to deathbed he made and re-made his own image with a feverish intensity.
"Garrulous to the very last" (as he wrote), he contemplated death yet also wrote buoyant poems for his ninth, "deathbed" edition (1891 92).
This connection between innateness and immortality prompts Socrates' deathbed discussion of innateness in the Phaedo, where the topic of discussion is the immateriality and immortality of the soul.
I sang tunes from Oklahoma! to her as she lay on her deathbed and that seemed to make her smile.
The SDLP was in crisis because of its ambivalence to the deaths in 1981 of 10 IRA hunger strikers in the Maze prison, including Bobby Sands, who was elected as Westminster MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone while on his deathbed.
Mary Tudor might have said on her deathbed that Calais would be forever engraved upon her heart, but these days it's far more likely to be engraved on our shopping trolleys.
But it wouldn't seem out of place in the government's latest edict on housing design, which was coughed up in a deathbed splutter on Friday, shortly before parliament was dissolved.
