Verb
shuffle off (third-person singular simple present shuffles off, present participle shuffling off, simple past and past participle shuffled off)
(transitive) To thrust aside; to put off.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. Arnold J. Toynbee
Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh. Aldous Huxley