terminal rally (plural terminal rallies)

1. An instance of terminal lucidity.
   • 2005, Charles Upton, Legends of the End‎^[1], page 78:

     But what, if any, is the organic relationship between the idea of a brief millennial flowering immediately before the end of the cycle, suggesting the brief, terminal rally that a dying person will often exhibit, and a posthumous ‘kingdom’ which will have no end?