[ noun ] euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) <noun.state> she was laid to rest beside her husbandthey had to put their family pet to sleep
Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See {Quiet}, a., and cf. {Quit}, a.] Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin. --Shak.