How about he or she is with the Angels now.
Or your dog or cat is in pet heaven now.
Or the kids fav .aunt or uncle who they finally twigged has died years earlier and are then told the newly deceased is with Aunt peggy or Uncle frank now .
However quite honestly I can`t see anything wrong with that ,its just another way of expressing the reality of whats happened ?
I`m talking from the point of believers in general here, I would never say Heaven ,Hell or Angels .myself.
I`m more straight forward .
I would probably say : the bastard or bitch is dead ,live with it and get on with your life.