The correct term is [merciful] death.
Often the terminal patient thrashes, trying to defy the end he has already freely chosen. It is not peaceful. Indeed, greater mercy, sparing him the most suffering, is to kill him at the start, when he is most healthy and capable of resisting. When the death is most violent.
The death Thanatos represented could be peaceful, but only if the terminal case accepted the Truth of its inevitability.
The intent that was behind Thanatos is Iust Death.
Those who cheated him of his due were only harming themselves. Truly they did not defy Thanatos, they attempted to defy themselves, their own will.
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New failcomment system also fails to publish my comments, it's not limited to yours. Keep trying, it will usually work, eventually.
Blogger deliberately trying to kill itself, I expect.
Captchas should be off. If it gives you one anyway, it's against my explicit instructions.