8 Bible Verses about Death Desired

I am hard pressed between the two. I have the desire to depart and be with Christ for it is far better.

A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

Men will seek death in those days and will not find it. They will desire to die and death will elude them.

In this we sigh (in silent prayer), longing to be clothed with our habitation that is from heaven. Indeed being clothed we will not be found naked. While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.read more.
He that prepared us for this very purpose is God. He gave the Spirit to us as a guarantee (pledge) (security). We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this. I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

Now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me for it is better for me to die than to live. Jehovah asked him: Do you have good reason to be angry? Then Jonah went out of the city. He sat on the east side of the city. He made a booth, and sat under it in the shade. He wanted to see what would become of the city.read more.
And Jehovah God prepared a gourd plant. He made it grow up over Jonah. That way it would be a shade over his head. It would deliver him from his disastrous (fateful) attitude. So Jonah was very glad to have the gourd plant. The next morning God prepared a worm and it attacked the plant and it withered. When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!

Let your servant depart according to your word in peace.