Wiktionary
n. 1 termination of the sale or support for goods and services. 2 (context medicine English) Medical care options, primarily for patients who are considered critically ill.
Wikipedia
"End-of-life" (EOL) is a term used with respect to a product supplied to customers, indicating that the product is in the end of its useful life (from the vendor's point of view), and a vendor stops marketing, selling, or rework sustaining it. (The vendor may simply intend to limit or end support for the product.) In the specific case of product sales, a vendor may employ the more specific term "end-of-sale" (EOS). The time-frame after the last production date depends on the product and relates to the expected product lifetime from a customer's point of view. Different lifetime examples include toys from fast food chains (weeks or months), cars (10 years), and mobile phones (3 years).
End-of-life may refer to:
- End-of-life (product), a term used with respect to terminating the sale or support of goods and services
- End-of-life care, medical care for patients with terminal illnesses or conditions that have become advanced, progressive and incurable
- End of Life Vehicles Directive, European Community legislation
Usage examples of "end-of-life".
Both men and vars lacked the end-of-life solace afforded to normal folkto cloneswho knew they would continue through their clanmates, in all ways but direct memory.