5 Bible Verses about Death Desired

For I am in a strait between the two, having an earnest longing to be dissolved, and to be with Christ, for this is far, far better:

THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,

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

For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our mansion which is from heaven; that so invested, we may not be found naked. For we which are in this tabernacle, groan, being burdened; wherein we desire not to be unclothed, but clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.read more.
But he that hath wrought us for this very thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the spirit. Therefore we have always confidence, and know that whilst we are indwelling in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight.) We are confident indeed, and with pleasure expect to go out from the body, and to dwell within with the Lord:

Now dismiss thy servant, Lord, according to thy word, in peace;