Euphemisms for Death

Most mystery novels have one thing in common.... There is usually ALWAYS a dead body. As mystery readers you must have heard many different euphemisms for death. I thought it would be fun to list some of them for your entertainment. Some I'd heard of before some I hadn't. I've put them in alphabetical order. The first one is one I'd not heard before but is one of my favorites!



At room temperature
Became living-challenged
Big sleep
Bought a pine condo
Bought the farm
Bumped off
Buy it
Cash in (or out)
Ceased to be
Checked out
Croak
Crossed over
Crossed the bar
Crossed the River Styx
Dance the last dance
Deader than a doornail
Deceased
Defunct
Demised
Departed
Dirt nap
Done for
Eat it
Expired
Extinct
Finished
Gathered to his people
Gave up the ghost
Get your wings
Go into the fertilizer business
Gone into the west
Gone to meet their maker
Goner
Got a one-way ticket
In a better place
In the grave
In Hell (or Heaven)
In repose
Kicked the bucket
Kicked off
Late
Lifeless
Lost
Met his maker
Moved into upper management
No longer with us
No more
Off the twig
Offed
Passed...(over, on, away, etc)
Perished
Popped off
Pushing up the daisies
Resting in peace
Return to the ground
Rubbed out
Run down the curtain
Shuffled off the mortal coil
Six feet under
Sleeping with the fishes
Snuffed
Snuffed out
Sprouted wings
Stiff
Stone dead
Struck out by the big blue pencil
Succumbed
Terminated
That good night
Toes up
Wasted
Wearing a toe tag
Went belly up
With the ancestors
Worm food