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" :DIt 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
