Sentence examples for merciful death from inspiring English sources

"merciful death" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to express the idea that a death was a relief from suffering, either physical or emotional. For example, one could say, "After years of pain and suffering, he was granted a merciful death."

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Fortunately, that line of thinking died a merciful death.

As I held my dad's soft, mottled hand, I vainly wished him a similar merciful death.

Is it better for aging animals to suffer, blind, arthritic, starving, or cancerous, until merciful death?

There is nothing to be fucking done about it now… O.K., here's to merciful death".

But every plan to have someone play Dean met a merciful death.

The chicken began to thrash, its eyes open, as if chastising me for my false promises of a merciful death.

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In fact, the decent-life-merciful-death line is how Jeremy Bentham justified his own meat eating.

The group argues that it does not operate a traditional animal shelter, but a "shelter of last resort" that only receives very sick, very badly behaved and otherwise unadoptable animals for whom death is a merciful end.

Among other things, the books feature a church-sponsored prison camp for kidnapped children, a pair of renegade male angels who are touchingly in love and a god who is ancient, weak and exhausted, yearning more than anything for the merciful release of death.

How much more merciful the easy death of birds appears next to our own endurance of imprisonment and terror.

That's why when you're watching a movie together, and there's a sex scene, everyone becomes motionless and silently begs for the merciful release of death".

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