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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 qui·etus /kwaɪˈitəs, ˈe-/
 最後的解除,償清,生命的終止

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Qui·e·tus n.  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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 quietus
      n : euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a
          bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her
          husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
          [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep]