passing away
Leaving this world
Passing away is a gentle euphemism for dying.
The phrase softens the bluntness of death, making it suitable for condolences and formal announcements: We were saddened to hear of your father's passing away.
The noun form *passing* is even more common: her passing came as a shock to everyone.
No longer living
- demiseCessation of existence
- funeralService honoring the dead
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
obituary · cremation · coffin · burial · corpse · mortuary · autopsy · mausoleum
Having left
- crossed overWent to the other side
- goneNo longer present
- at peaceIn a calm state
- eternal restEuphemism for death
no longer with us · left us · lost · resting · called home · taken · breathed their last · met their maker
State following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- mourningPeriod following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- lossBeing without something
anguish · lamentation · tears · grieving · condolences · widow · widower · orphaned
Existence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- heavenSky or bliss
- eternityBoundless temporal existence
ascended · spirit · rebirth · transmigration · beyond · hereafter · other side · ancestors
deceased
No longer living
cemetery · obituary · cremation · coffin · burial · corpse · mortuary · autopsy · mausoleum · pallbearer
departed
Having left
- crossed overWent to the other side
- goneNo longer present
- at peaceIn a calm state
eternal rest · no longer with us · left us · lost · resting · called home · taken · breathed their last · met their maker · returned to dust
bereavement
State following loss
loss · anguish · lamentation · tears · grieving · condolences · widow · widower · orphaned · keening
afterlife
Existence beyond mortality
- soulInnermost animating essence
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- heavenSky or bliss
eternity · ascended · spirit · rebirth · transmigration · beyond · hereafter · other side · ancestors · next world
- meditationbreathing meditation, breath, breath meditation, mantra, breathing
- dyingdying, expiring, perishing, succumbing, fading
- jhanassamadhi, infinite space, nothingness, samatha
passing awaybirth
Coming into the world
being born · coming into being · arrival · nativity · emergence
passing awaysurviving
Remaining alive or intact
continuing · persisting · remaining · enduring · staying alive
passing awayrecovering
Regaining health or strength
revival · pulling through · resurrection · recovery · coming back
away, pass, passing, passport, passed, pass on, bypass, throw away, passageway