That’s why they call it buying the farm.
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No, it is called buying the farm when the farmer dies and his insurance monies pay off the mortgage.
I’ve read that “buying the farm” originated during WWII when all the GIs carried life insurance policies.
When a soldier was killed, his family was paid. Many families used the money to pay off the mortgage on the family farm.
Here’s the explanation I read about, probably in one of Richard Bach’s books.
US slang, from the WWII era (first printed record in the US Air Force in the 1950’s). Similar expressions like buy the plot and buy the lot also existed, although buy the farm is the only one to have survived. When a military pilot with a stricken airplane attempted to crash land in a farmer’s field, he would destroy a portion of the farmer’s crops for which the US government paid reimbursement to the farmer. If it were a bad crash-landing destroying most of the crops then the crash would cause the buying of the whole farm, shortened subsequently to the current idiom.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buy_the_farm#Etymology