Grave
Grave noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.
Usage example: a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash
Sleep
Sleep noun - The state of being dead.
Usage example: a grieving widower longing to join his beloved wife in her eternal sleep
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- And even if you manage to avoid the actual breaking point, even mildly lowered humanity makes it increasingly difficult not to crawl into your grave and sleep for a century.
Source: RPGs Equal Combat -
But, I find that I cannot quietly sleep in my grave while Treizes spirit is still roaming among us.
Source: That Man Is Dead - So direct me please to the man who'll sell me a gun, and the place where my dad was shot dead in his sleep, for I have business to attend to before I lay down in my grave.
Source: Badass Boast / Comic Books
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