8 Bible Verses about Death Desired

For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)

Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us,

And in those days shall men seek death, and not find it; and shall eagerly desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

For also in this we groan, longing to have our dwelling from heaven put on: If also being even clothed we shall not be found naked. For also being in the tent we groan, being loaded: since we wish not to be unclothed, but to be clothed, that the mortal should be swallowed up of life.read more.
And he having brought us about to this same, God, he having also given us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore being always confident, and knowing that, being at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, and not by external appearance:) And we are confident, and are contented rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home in the Lord.

And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones. I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.

My soul was weary in my life; I shall leave upon me my complaint; I shall speak in the bitterness of my soul

And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live. And Jehovah will say, Didst thou well for thee to be angry? And Jonah will go out of the city, and sit from the east to the city, and he make to him there a tent, and he will sit under it in the shadow, even till he shall see what will be upon the city.read more.
And Jehovah God will appoint a gourd, and it will come up from above to Jonah to be a shadow over his head to deliver to him from his evil. And Jonah will rejoice over the gourd with great joy. And God will appoint a worm in the going up of the morning for the morrow, and it will strike the gourd, and it will dry up. And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

Now Lord, thou wilt loose thy servant, according to thy word, in peace :