| The specter that haunts all humanity is its impending death. Death represents the great unknown in our existence, so to comfort ourselves, we
have come up with many euphemisms for death. These include:
lose one's life
succumb
expire
perish
decease
pass away (or over)
pass
depart this life
depart
be taken
meet one's death
meet one's end
meet one's fate
be no more
cease to be
cease to live
be gone
stop breathing
breathe one's last
give up the ghost
curl up and die
drop off
close one's eyes
fall asleep
predecease
become extinct
come (or turn) to dust
decompose
lie in the grave
sleep one's last sleep
turn up one's toes
push up daisies
be six feet under
ring down the curtain
shuffle off this mortal coil
pay the debt of nature
go the way of all flesh
go to one's reward
go to one's last home
go west
go to the last roundup
go to one's long account
cash in one's chips
have had one's chips
quit the scene
quit it
cross the bar
cross the Styx (or Lethe or River Jordan)
go up Salt River
join the majority
join the choir invisible
join the angels
meet one's Maker
meet Saint Peter
enter the Golden Gate
go to glory
reach a better world
awake to life immortal
kick the bucket
kick it
bite the dust
croak
peg it
peg out
snuff it
cop it
buy it
buy the farm
conk out
go for a burton
pop off
pop one's clogs
hop the twig
go belly up
take a dirt nap | 
