“It happened in your baptism, when you were joined to Jesus in his death and resurrection. Dead man goes in and under. New man comes up and out.”
Close.
God doesn’t want to kill you.
IF you are a Christian, you have died by being included in the crucifixion with Christ when you exercised saving faith.
St. Paul has just said, in Romans 6, that you died when you were baptized: "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:3-4)
I'm just following his thought.