kick the bucket

"They all thought I was going to kick the bucket, but I won the sweepstake down the golf club."

Stocklin didn’t want to kick the bucket without fulfilling his dream of racing hydroplanes.

In "Gremlins," a Black teacher is the first to kick the bucket.

"I suspect my publishers, they're delightful people, but I think they wanted to get it out in a hurry just in case I kicked the bucket before it was time to release the thing."

So yes, of course, Hastings wants linear TV to kick the bucket.