swing off

swing off
   to die
   Not by hanging or even by violence. The imagery is possibly avian, as with hop off:
    She placed flowers on his grave on the day he swung off. (Longstreet, 1956 — its anniversary, I would suggest, unless there had been an unusually rapid interment)

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