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Euphemisms for Death
A race well run
Angels carried him/her away
Annihilated
Asleep in Christ
Ate it
Be all over with one
Be no more
Be taken
Bills of mortality
Bit the dust
Blew him/herself away
Bought the farm
Break one's neck
Breathe one's last
Breathed the last
Buy the farm
Called home
Came to an end
Cashed in
Catch one's death
Cease to breathe
Cease to live
Cessation of life
Changed form
Chant du cygne (French for swansong)
Checked out
Close one's eyes
Come to an untimely end
Come to dust
Consigned to earth
Croaked
Cross the bar
Cross the Stygian ferry
Crossed over Jordan
Curtains
Death doom
Death knocks at the door
Death song
Death stares one in the face
Debt of nature
Definitely Done Dancing
Depart this life
Departed
Departure
Die
Die a natural death
Die a violent death
Down dead
Drop dead
Drop into the grave
Drop off
Dropped the body
Dust to dust
Dying agonies
Dying breath
Dying day
Ebb of life
End of life
End one's days
End one's earthly career
End one's life
Ended it all
Eternal rest
Expire, Expired
Extinction of life
Fall dead
Fall down
Feeling no pain
Fell asleep in the arms of Jesus
Final chapter
Final curtain call
For whom the bell tolls
Found everlasting peace
Gave it up
Gave up the ghost
Getting Bagged
Give up the ghost
Go off
Go off the hooks
Go out like the snuff of a candle
Go the way of all flesh
Go to Davy Jones's locker
Go to one's last home
Go to one's long account
Go to the wall
God took him/her
Goes to his/her heavenly father
Gone to heaven
Gone to his/her reward
Hand in one's checks
Hand in one's chips
Hand of death
Hell's grim Tyrant
His/her time was up
Hop the twig
"I'm comin', Elizabeth"
In adamantine chains shall death be bound
In the arms of the Father
In the great beyond
It was curtains
Jaws of death
Join the greater number
Join the majority
Kick the bucket
Kicked the bucket
King Death
King of terrors
Knocking on heaven's door
Laid to rest
Last agonies
Last breath
Last gasp
Lay down one's life
Left this world
Left us
Life ebbs
Life fails
Life hangs by a thread
Liquidated
Lose one's life
Loss
Loss of life
Lost
Make one's will
Meet one's death
Meet one's end
Met his/her Maker
No longer with us
Offed himself/herself
On the heavenly shores
On the other side
On ice
One's days are numbered
One's doom is sealed
One's hour is come
One's race is run
Out of his/her misery
Pass in one's checks
Pass in one's chips [U.S.]
Passed away
Passed on
Passing
Pay the debt to nature
Perish
Perished
Pop off
Post mortem
Pushing up daisies
Quietus
Reached the finish line
Receive one's death warrant
Release
Relinquish one's life
Resign one's being
Resign one's breath
Resign one's life
Rest
Resting in peace
Returned to dust
Returned to the source
Rigor mortis
Rubbed out
Shadow of the Valley of Death
Shuffle off this mortal coil
Sink into the grave
Six feet under
Snuffed
Spake the grisly Terror
Step out
Stygian shore
Succumbed
Surrender one's life
Swan song
Taking the dirt nap
Terminated
That was all she wrote
The breath is out of the body
The grave closes over one
The lone couch of this everlasting sleep
Transcended
Translated into glory
Turn to dust
Turn up one's toes
Untimely end
Valley of death
Was a goner
Was done in
Wasted
Watery grave
Went to a new life
Went to his/her eternal reward
With the angels
Withered away
Yield one's breath
Yield up the ghost
Source: "Death and Dying Language" by Kristi A. Dyer MD, MS, FT for About.com
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