since I looked it up

Anyone ever wonder how the phrase "buy the farm" came about?

as in

why don't you stop dying before you go and get it right
now you're selling off the house so you can buy the farm -Jets to Brazil

or

Sing the song or keep it inside
Bought the farm, but the farmer done died -Stone Temple Pilots

World Wide Words has many opinions about its origin, but I'll buy this one:

"...in an issue of American Speech in 1955:

Jet pilots say that when a jet crashes on a farm the farmer usually sues the government for damages done to his farm by the crash, and the amount demanded is always more than enough to pay off the mortgage and then buy the farm outright. Since this type of crash is nearly always fatal to the pilot, the pilot pays for the farm with his life..."