Death takes a different perspective when you read Matthew 18:6. Whoever would cause one of the least of these who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him that a millstone worked by a donkey would be hung around his neck and he would be drowned in the open sea. 7. Woe to the world for those who cause sin: for it is necessary for the temptation to sin to come, but woe to the man by whom the temptation comes. 8. And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, you must immediately cut it off and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, rather than having two hands and two feet to have been cast into the eternal fire. 9. And if your eye causes you to sin, you must immediately pluck it out and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter life one-eyed rather than having two eyes to have been cast into the Gehenna of fire.

Then again in Mark 9:42. And whoever would cause one of the least of these who believe in Me to sin, it is better for him if a millstone turned by a donkey were placed around his neck and he were cast into the sea. 43. And if your hand would cause you to sin, you must immediately cut it off: it is expedient for you to enter life crippled rather than, having two hands, to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire 44. where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out. 45. And if your foot would cause you to sin, you must immediately cut it off: it is better for you to enter life lame rather than having two feet to have been thrown into Gehenna 46. where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out. 47. And if your eye would cause you to sin, you must immediately cast it out: it is more profitable for you to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye rather than having two eyes to have been cast into Gehenna, 48. where their worm does not die and the fire is not put out. (Isa. 66:24)

So what we call death, Y’shua calls Entering Life. That is why Paul instructed the Thessalonians that we are not to grieve like the heathens, who have no hope. In 1 Thessalonians 4:13. And we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that you would not grieve as the rest of those who do not have hope. 14. For if we believe that Y’shua died and rose, so God will also bring with Him those who have fallen asleep by means of Y’shua’s redemption. All the loved ones we now miss on earth are waiting for us as each one’s turn comes to enter life.