Usually means: Final convulsions before death occurs.
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  1. death-throe, death throe: Wordnik
  2. death throe: Wiktionary
  3. Death throe: Dictionary.com
  4. death throe: FreeDictionary.org

Definitions from Wiktionary (death throe)

noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Struggle that is followed by death.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) The final movements or sounds, often erratic, of a living being as it dies.
noun:  (figurative, chiefly in the plural) The final actions or output of a machine or other object before it ceases to function.

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