send to heaven

   to kill

   A Christian might also be sent home, to heaven, to his last or long account, or to the skies, and an American Indian, in a Western at least, to his happy hunting grounds:

    Now I seemed to see that warrior that my hand had sent to his last account. (Haggard, 1885)

    My faithful Jasper has gone to his happy hunting grounds, (du Maurier, 1938 — Jasper was a dog)

   A Chinese might be sent to the happy land or the land of the lotus blossom:

    The only successful way to get rid of a competitor... is to send him to the happy land of his forefathers by having him 'put on the spot'. (Lavine, 1930)

    ... send him to the land of the lotus blossom, (ibid.)

   To be sent home in a body-bag means that an American military corpse is being repatriated for a funeral. British casualties are normally buried in 'some corner of a foreign field'.