mortal coil
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmortal coilmortal coilliterary life or the state of being alive when Hubbard shuffled off this mortal coil (=died) → mortalExamples from the Corpusmortal coil• Times had certainly changed since he had shuffled off the old mortal coil.• Morse and Meldrew both shuffled off this mortal coil and the telly world is diminished by their passing.