'Life' in the Bible

Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

“The waters surrounded me, to the point of death.The great deep engulfed me,Seaweed was wrapped around my head.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

As my life was fading away,I remembered Yahweh.My prayer came to You,to Your holy temple.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'