He bought the farm. The tragic backstory being that the man was farming on land he was still paying off a loan for and his life insurance pays for the farm for the widow (though that wasn't even always the case).

The Dead Parrot Sketch has a few of my faves

Brown bread: an instance of cockney rhyming slang for "dead". Difficult to use outside of the UK.

Mortally challenged: always good in a heavily moderated or corporate environment where every negative is somehow lexically spun into a positive, no matter how ludicrous.

One way ticket to Switzerland: hopefully a soon-to-be-outdated joke about taking advantage of their more liberal assisted dying laws.

I like "kicked the bucket" or "gave up the the ghost". The latter I said recently and got mocked because they'd never heard it and apparently it's "not a real saying".

Kicked off

Left the plane of existence

Shuffled off this mortal coil

Exited the building

Please for the love of everything sacred dont say unalive

Dirt nap

Pushing up daisies has always been a favourite.

"Beyond the veil", because it sounds poetic.

"He's wearing a wooden boiler suit" is a Dutch one I like.

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Medical people I know tell me that when they have to actually give the family the news they don't use euphemisms. No 'they passed,' or 'they are in a better place.' "They died." You have to be blunt with really shocking news.

Å parkere tøflene - to park one's slippers.

Sometimes I like to tell people that my family has "two of those subterranean breed cats"

Mine is from an old movie, The Last Starfighter. A human and an alien are discussing an attack on their base and the people killed in the attack.

Alex Rogan : You mean they're dead?

Grig : [scoffs] Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.

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It doesn't really translate well, but in Swedish "trilla av pinn" (slang/casual phrasing roughly meaning fallen off the branch/stick/bar).

I think it originates from farming circumstances where hens are sitting on bars in henhouses, laying eggs until they, well...

I like "teats up" and "cark it". 😄

Quit smoking

Casual Geographic on YouTube uses tons of fun euphemisms. Things like getting taken off the census, or hooking up to God's wifi.

Dropping the spoon. :)

In our city (marathi) they say “He went off” and also in (Hindi) they say “He went through”

Kicked the bucket.

My dad had a good sense of humor. When he died, he left us his "Kicked the bucket list" with all of the information about accounts we needed to cancel, put in my mom's name, etc. Having all that in one place made it a lot easier to work through all that shit while we we grieving.

"Virou estatística" "They are now statistics".

"Ir de base" "Going to the base". Reference to games where you respawn at a base.

"Ir de arrasta para cima" "Swiped up". No ideia why that exists but it's great

"Ir de submersível" "Went like a submersible" Reference to the billionaire submarine that imploded

All of the "ir de" ones can use "foi de" to say them in the past

"Reached the clearing at the end of the path" - Stephen King, "Dark Tower"

In the process of dying: "Circling the drain."

A favorite of mine is "zaklepal bačkorama" ~ he clacked with his slippers. It's really fun to say in Czech

American Sign language has some of the best.

First

Second

I cant find a video of the one I Learned in college. Involves the fingers of one hand springing up suddenly from behind the other, like the legs of a dead spider.

Got rid of his grey hair and dyed.

Signed out.

Back to the mud - Joe Abercrombie

Mine is: “睇橋” (Visiting the bridge)

Its a euphemism for me wanting to kill myself.

There's a bridge near where I live, I looked it up on Google Street view. There's no suicide barriers. I could just jump off.

I say that to my mother, then she just be like "want me to drive you there?" (she knows I'm talking about suicide) as like taunting me or something.

(But seriously, I'm not sure about the lethality, don't wanna end up only half dead, so nah, probably gonna get a gun for that. It's 'Murica, baby)

Went to a farm up state

Graduated

keeled the fuck over.

or keeled over if you’re in polite company.

"The spark of his life is smothered in shite" - A Knight's Tale

"Hij heeft een tuintje op zijn buik." = "He has a garden on his stomach." is a Dutch saying. I think it is specifically from Amsterdam

"it may be years

It may be hours

But sooner or later

We all push up flowers." - Florist, Grim Fandango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y25BR42lyBo

My family just says "left us." "Grandad left us in 2009."

Dogs, though, cross the Rainbow Bridge.

"And if they bury you ass-up, I'll have a place to park my bike."

Parkere trøflene - park the slippers

Some nonsensical ones in Russian: "сыграл в ящик" ("played the box game"), "откинул копыта" ("kicked back their hooves"), and "склеил ласты" ("glued their flippers/fins")