KICKS THE BUCKET

(slang) dies. The phrase comes from animals, about to be slaughtered for food and often being hung from a frame scaffold, kicking out as they are lifted into position. Their legs hit part of the frame whose French name, buchet, is the origin of the word bucket. —OEC - Government and Organization App Mar 91

(slang) dies. The phrase comes from animals, about to be slaughtered for food and often being hung from a frame scaffold, kicking out as they are lifted into position. Their legs hit part of the frame whose French name, buchet, is the origin of the word bucket. Once the benign monarch kicks the bucket, why then, what happens?