[RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

[Fred Cisin]

>>> It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir 
>>> Invisible.  IT'S BRICKED.
>>   Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D 
> It is most assuredly NOT pining for the fjords! :)

It is a relatively common euphemism, and is explicitly included in the 
classic Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch.
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-parrot.html