Euphemisms for Death / Dead / To Die
Commonplace Book – Pages 96 – 97
“At Room Temperature”
“Dirt Nap”
“Pushin’ Up Daisies”
“Passed (on, away, over, etc)”
“Deceased”
“Ex-”
“Stone Dead”
“Demised”
“Ceased to be”
“No More”
“Expired”
“Gone to Meet His/Her/Their Maker”
“Stiff”
“Bereft of Life”
“Resting in Peace”
“Off the Twig”
“Kicked the Bucket”
“Shuffled Off the Mortal Coil”
“Run Down the Curtain”
“Joined the Choir Invisible”
“That Good Night”
“In a Better Place”
“Six Feet Under”
“Crossed Over”
“Crossed the Bar”
“Crossed the River Styx”
“Wandering the Elysian Fields”
“Paid Charon’s Fare”
“Sleeping with the Fishes”
“Bought the Farm”
“Asleep”
“Belly Up”
“Bloodless”
“Buried”
“Cadaverous”
“Checked Out”
“Sent Up the River”
“Cold”
“Cut Off”
“Defunct”
“Departed
“Done for”
“Erased”
“Extinct”
“Gone”
“Inanimate”
“Late”
“Lifeless”
“Liquidated”
“Mortified”
“Offed”
“Perished”
“In Repose”
“Rubbed Out”
“Snuffed Out”
“Wasted”
“Lost”
“Be Taken”
“Bump Off”
“Check Out”
“Croak”
“Dance the Last Dance”
“Finished”
“Gone into the West”
“Kicked Off”
“Got a One-Way Ticket”
“Sprouted Wings”
“Succumbed”
“No Longer With Us”
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust”
“Return to the Ground”
“In Heaven (or Hell)”
“With the Ancestors”
“Give Up the Ghost”
“Put Down”
“Going to the Big ___ in the Sky”
“Worm Food”
“Living-Challenged”
“Gathered to his People”
“Cash in (or out)”
“Eat it”
“Popped Off”
“Dead as a Doornail”
“Come to an Untimely End”
“Davy Jones’ Locker”
“Join the Greater Number”
