Words about death （2）

Negative words

丧命 lost life

断气 cut off breath

嗝屁 block fart (in scold and abuse, the fart mean breath)

夭折 snapped in young

灭门 extinguish whole family

暴毙violence death

下地狱, go to hell

一命呜呼 the life Wu Hu. Normally the last word of a Condolence is Wu Hu.

诛九族 kill all the relatives

进棺材 go to coffin

赶投胎 hurry to be another fetus. Ancient Chinese believe that after death, one was going to next birth.

见阎王 see Pluto

回老家 go back hometown. After death one should burry at hometown.

七孔流血 bleed from the seven apertures in the human head, i.e. eyes, ears, nostrils and mouth

魂飞魄散 soul is gone, spirit is disappear

死有余辜death will not expiate all his crimes

死不足惜Death is not to be regretted

五马分尸dismemberment by five horses; dividing up; sharing out

死不瞑目dead with open eyes (it means die with grievance of everlasting regret)

魂归离恨天 soul go to heaven where no hate

死无葬身之地 die without a bury place (mean come to a bad end)

Neutral words:

殁, death

往生 go to other life

作古 turn to be ancient (history)

亡故 died and gone

过世 left this world

逝世 disappear from this world

谢世 bid farewell to this world

死亡 died death

长眠 sleep forever

倩女离魂 the soul of a beauty left (normally for a good looking girl died for love) 
死欲速朽 died and expecting rotten faster (it means don’t have a luxury inhume. In ancient time people love a luxury inhume, they required all the precious thing in one’s alive buried with them. But some smart person didn’t want this, they asked a simple inhume and after thousand years people found those simple tomb maintained very well, but most of the luxury tombs were robbed)