8 Bible Verses about Death Desired

But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.

For truly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, since, after we have put it on, we will not be found naked. For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.read more.
Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live." The LORD said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth, and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.read more.
The LORD God prepared a vine, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine. But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered. It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."

"Now you are releasing your servant, Sovereign Lord, according to your word, in peace;