5 Bible Verses about Death Desired

But I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; for this is far better:

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

And in those days men will seek death, and will not find it; and they will desire to die, and death flies from them.

For in this we groan, longing to be invested with our house which is from heaven: if indeed having been invested, we shall not be found unclothed. For indeed being in this tabernacle we groan, being burdened; not that we wish to be divested, but invested, that mortality may be swallowed up of life.read more.
But the one having wrought us out unto this same thing is God, the one having given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident even knowing that, being present in the body, we are absent from the Lord; (for we walk by faith, not by sight); but we are confident and delighted rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.

Now, O Lord, thou art letting thy servant depart, in peace according to thy word;