5 Bible Verses about Death Desired

for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is much preferable:

Having therefore so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin that easily besets us, and run with patience the race that is set before us,

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

And therefore whilst we are in this tabernacle we groan, being very desirous to be covered with our house which is from heaven: since though unclothed of this body, yet we shall not be found naked. For we who are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened; wherefore we desire, not to be wholly unclothed, but to put on immortality, that the mortal part may be swallowed up in life.read more.
Now He, that hath wrought us hereunto, is God; who hath also given us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we dwell in the body, we are absent from the Lord, (for we walk by faith, not by sight,) we are confident, I say, and well-pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

and blessed God, and said, "Now, Lord, thou dismissest thy servant in peace, according to thy word;