meet one's maker

That’s another way that, to mangle an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, presidents are different from you and me: for the general populace, January is the most popular month in which to meet one’s maker.

That’s another way that, to mangle an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote, presidents are different from you and me: for the general populace, January is the most popular month in which to meet one’s maker.

Perhaps the most common way of making peace with death -- getting over it, in a sense -- is by thinking of it as a way to "meet one's maker."