I know that yesterday we posted about planning – even making a reference to Little Red Riding hood; however there are other issues that confront us when we make plans for our future. In discussing Wills we face our own mortality.
It is interesting that we have a multitude of euphemisms for death –
- Bit the dust
- Bite the big one
- Bought a one-way ticket
- Bought the farm
- Breathed their last
- Cashed in their chips
- Checked out
- Croaked
- Crossed over
- Deceased
- Deep Six
- Departed
- Entered eternal rest
- Entered the Pearly Gates
- Feeding the worms (or “became worm food”)
- Their number’s up
- Kicked the bucket
- Kicked the can
- Kicked the oxygen habit
- Knocked on heaven’s door
- Left the building (often preceded by “Elvis has…”)
- Met their maker
- Pay/paid the piper
- Perished
- Pushing up daisies
- Resting in peace
- Rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible
- Shuffled off the mortal coil
- Sleep with the fishes
- Slipped away
- Snuffed it
- Took a permanent vacation
- Turn to dust
- Was called home
- Went the way of all flesh
- Went to be with the Lord
- Went to Davy Jones’ Locker
- Went to the Happy Hunting Grounds
Death is a part of life and the sooner we face the reality that we experience life for a fairly brief time and have no way of knowing when our time is up, we should live each of our days as if it is the only one we have – and plan for the future with this in mind.
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