Thanatos

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DEATH, Greek, thanatos

see Death instinct [1]

see also Thanatos [2]

immortalised by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) in his poem, Thantopsis [3] which has for the final verse:

So live, that when thy summons comes to join	 
The innumerable caravan which moves	 
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,	 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,	 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed	 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave	 
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.