human
The sleep of Death is a very natural expression to use as one looks on the calm, peaceful face after life's fitful fever and the long pain and sickness of the death-bed. But no one can study the Bible references to the life beyond without seeing that it cannot be a life of sleep or unconsciousness.
gpt
Shall we sleep between Death and the Judgment? asks Tertullian.
human
Why souls do not sleep even when men are alive. It is the province of bodies to sleep.