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One school of thought comes from slaughtering pigs.
The animals are hauled up by their feet with a wooden block, much like raising a bucket. The bloack was called "the bucket". the pigs fight against this block and kick at it.
Most feel that, at best, it is of "uncertain origin"
A rather morbid question...the kick the bucket phrase comes from lynch mob. when a mob of people would hang someone from a tree, they would place them on a inverted bucket. One of the people would kick the bucket out from under the condemned and that person would fall the short distance that was provided by the inverted bucket thus breaking their necks (or strangling them, more often)
Its from when you would commit suicide by hanging your self you would then"kick the bucket" which you would be standing on this would thighten the rope thus killing yourself
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