“Quietus” (kwy-EE-tus) – from the Latin for “he is at rest” – is a release from life; a final discharge of an obligation or debt.
Example (as used by William Shakespeare in Hamlet’s “To be, or not to be” soliloquy): “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / The oppressor’s wrong, / the proud man’s contumely [contempt], / The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, / The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin [dagger]?”
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