close your eyes

close your eyes
   to die
   Or explicitly, close your eyes for the last time. If you close another's eyes, that person is already dead:
    I trust that I shall be able to close your eyes in peace. (R. Hughes, 1987, quoting a letter from a 19th-century convict in Australia to his parents in England)

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