Amusing Euphemisms For Death

[Gruthar]

"...has become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

/Star Wars

 

[achilleas.k]

DAMN, I thought of that when I clicked on the thread

Respect to you, sir

Thank you kind sir.
I was just surprised it wasn't in the original message or at least the first two replies.

 

[lukulele]

"Dirt nap"(cookie for reference)

Regular nap!
(Sealab reference)

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Post the most amusing euphemism for death you have heard anywhere.

Mine is from Mother of Mathew Reilly's Scarecrow books:
"If we stay here, we'll all be turned into strawberry f*ckin' doughnuts."

Finally someone else who knows what the hell I'm talking about when I reference Matthew Reilly novels. They're some of my favourite reads

 

[JaymesFogarty]

He's past his sell-by date. I don't think anyone has had that one yet. (Fingers crossed)

 

[Hexenwolf]

"Dirt nap"(cookie for reference)

That could literally be a reference to dozens of different things. I'm going to just go ahead and say the mafia though.

As for my own, I like

He's juggling halos now*.

*Only works for jugglers

 

[Colonel Joson]

"Dirt nap"(cookie for reference)

Set from the Necropolis in Fallout 1.
"The Mutants at the watershed need Dirt Naps. Makes my shadow grow".

Cookie for Wesker?

 

[Strategia]

There's a Dutch expression that transliterates as "giving the pipe to (St.) Martin". Though that's more weird than amusing.

 

[ReincarnatedFTP]

Not sure about amusing euphemisms for death but I have called an ambulance the "good news van" before.

 

[brumby]

"Another one bites the dust"

its so catchy!!

 

[brumby]

Post the most amusing euphemism for death you have heard anywhere.

Mine is from Mother of Mathew Reilly's Scarecrow books:
"If we stay here, we'll all be turned into strawberry f*ckin' doughnuts."

Finally someone else who knows what the hell I'm talking about when I reference Matthew Reilly novels. They're some of my favourite reads

fuck yeah... 1 of the only 2 authors I read.

 

[Ph33nix]

"well the colonel is coming and if we arnm;t up to snuff we are going to get to meet the men who make fried chicken."

 

[[zonking great]]

Magic related when committing suicide:
Dear family. I scoop.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

He was analy raped is always an amusing term for 'He was completely overwelmed and died horribly'

I attended to his end. Rest assured it was, comfortable.

Props for reference.

 

[lodo_bear]

From Though Some May Call You (A Meditation on Mortality) [http://ohioexpatriate.com/2009/04/01/mortality/] on The Ohio Expatriate Blog [http://ohioexpatriate.com/]:

We hate dying. We hate it so much that we've developed some ridiculous euphemisms to say it without having to utter the word. "Passed on" is by far the most common; but what does this mean? Where have they passed on to? I realize this calls up all sorts of answers and depends largely on whether you have a spiritual /religious perspective....But seriously: passed on to WHERE? To WHAT?...Another term that's often used to describe the death of a loved one is "lost." Lost. I won't spend a lot of time on this one, but I would like to point out that "lost", as a term, implies that we don't know where the object in question is. We do not lose people in the same way we lose the TV remote or our car keys. Nothing is misplaced. I know quite well where my dad - or what's left of him - is. I didn't lose him. He died. I didn't lose my good friend Lonnie. He died. Let's move on.

My favorite is from a Far Side cartoon, showing the obituaries for a number of species. The possum obits were labeled "Not faking it".

 

[dee_dubs]

One from a Tom Holt book. I can't remember the exact wording but after a threat delivered by phone, the author finished the paragraph with
"The line went dead, and in an effort to avoid the sincerest form of flattery, the man left."

 

[Skeleon]

In Germany, we say "he bit into the grass" which is probably synonymous to "he bit the dust".
Another one is "he examines the radishes from below".
Man, literal translations sound sucky.

 

[Roxilla84]

It referred to death benefits families would get when soldiers died. In the first half of the 20th century, their families usually used it to buy their farms from the title-owner (a bank or private person if they were sharecropping). So when someone died, they essentially "bought the farm" for their families.

 

[SimuLord]

He's bought the farm, punted the pail, snuffed it, dead as a doornail
He's passed on, he's kicked the bucket, left to St. Peter to tell him "aw, fuck it"
He's nothing but cold squishy fluff in his head
Let's cut to the point---the bastard is dead.

 

[Floppertje]

There's a Dutch expression that transliterates as "giving the pipe to (St.) Martin". Though that's more weird than amusing.

sint maarten de pijp geven?
never heard of it...

anyways "he's on the wrong side of the grass."