Wiktionary
a. Having an incurable condition that will lead to death.
Usage examples of "terminally ill".
In fact, parents have often brought along a terminally ill child, telling me: 'We're not expecting a miracle but we feel that we'd like to help him a little.
One of the things he's discovered is that sometimes the terminally ill come to a kind of peace once they accept that they _are_ going to die.
It was possible, although unlikely, that cryonic freezing prior to death would be legal for the terminally ill within two years.
All of them had tubes and apparatus connected to their bodies in awkward ways and all seemed to be terminally ill.
Yet he realized that Death would have a number of calls at hospitals, since many terminally ill people would expire in them.
But he felt there was another reason too, that some time in the future when the terminally ill children came to Bracken, to the hospice he would create there, she would also show them this wonderful place and death - if that was to be their fate - would hold no fear for them.
The Sharman Group's project would be hindered by fundamentalist Christians objecting to the injection of 'HIV-tainted' blood into the systems of terminally ill AIDS patients.
The Sharman Group’s project would be hindered by fundamentalist Christians objecting to the injection of ‘HIV-tainted’ blood into the systems of terminally ill AIDS patients.
Would this have come up were he not terminally ill, had they not been facing a surreal journey together?
My proofs are positive and they leave me with two aims: to help to rid people of the fear of dying and to comfort the grieving families and friends of the deceased or the terminally ill.