dying wish

dying wish

A final wish, desire, or request made shortly before one dies. Her dying wish was to have her ashes scattered at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
See also: dying, wish
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • Don’t you wish!
  • don't you wish
  • Don't you wish!
  • as you wish
  • you wish
  • you wish!
  • if wishes were horses, beggars would/might ride
  • if wishes were horses, (then) beggars might ride
  • if wishes were horses, beggars would ride
  • If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
References in classic literature
It was my father's dying wish that I should try and get it back again whenever I could; it was in his family for five generations.
The Mill on the Floss
It was his dying wish that I should appeal to you in their behalf.'
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
At La Charite, I executed the poor fellow's dying wishes. His mother was away from home, which in a manner was fortunate for me.
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A CARER has claimed her dad's dying wish to return to Scotland was thwarted by authorities.
Why did you delay dad's wish to die with family? Daughter's fury at red tape
A WOMAN wants to fulfil her ex-husband's dying wish - and be reunited with twins they bought online nearly 20 years ago.
Wife in twins reunion vow for ex-hubby
He had expressed his dying wish to meet his kids and wife, which was accepted by the British authorities as they granted the visa to the family.
Visa granted to family of Pakistani under medical care in UK
Rhenzie's sister Rhona, 19, said they kept mum about the murder of their mother because it was her dying wish not to have him arrested for her death.
Drug-crazed man kills father in Caloocan City
A MUM'S dying wish to take her children to see the Christmas lights at a garden centre has come true - with the help of charitable Derby people.
Dying wish to see the lights
The story for Namaste India begins in answer to a mother's dying wish, when Shaily Shergil journeys from her home in Munich, Germany to India in the hope of helping her mother turn a last dream into reality.
ROHM TO PRESENT NAMASTE INDIA ON OCTOBER 4, 5
THE dying wish of a British former prisoner of war is to be honoured when his ashes are returned home.
Dying wish as POW's ashes come home
Dying wish to marry HOSPITAL staff granted a terminally-ill woman her "dying wish" by helping her to get married.
5 MINUTE BRIEFING
Marcus Fellows and Linda Carolan Dying wish to marry HOSPITAL staff granted a terminally ill woman her "dying wish" by helping her to get married.
5 MINUTE BRIEFING
37-year-old Andrzej's dying wish was to be buried in ElblAg in Poland where his husband is originally from.
"We married on my husband's deathbed - but now I have no rights over his body"; The couple's marriage is not recognised back in Poland because they are gay
Poland's archaic laws do not recognise gay marriage and so Wojciech cannot fulfill his husband Andrzej's dying wish to be buried in ElblAg
Man has NO RIGHTS over where the love of his life will be buried because he is gay; Wojciech Krucinski married the love of his life Andrzej Wierzbowski while he lay dying in Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, but the law in Poland may mean the couple cannot be buried side by side
Fulfilling his dying wish, a man was buried with his car instead of the traditional coffin by his family inChina.
Video: Man granted dying wish, buried with his car