About death, I go through different moods, but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest. On the contrary, it is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for the patria. It is the bright frontispiece [which] whets one to read the story itself. All joy (as distinct from mere pleasure, still more amusement) emphasis’s our pilgrim status: always reminds, beckons, awakes desire. Our best havings are wantings.
From The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume III
Compiled in Yours, Jack
Compiled in Yours, Jack
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume III: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Copyright © 2007 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis. Copyright © 2008 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
When we are closest to joy, we are closest to heaven. So, if we truly believe in heaven, we would most want it when we experience the earthly aspects of joy. Death will bring the believer into full joy. Loving life is not mutually exclusive from loving the true joy that is the true source of love and life.
Living in and looking for looking for more heaven,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
This comment from a seasoned gardener, Z.
Essentially the same view arises in so many – scientists in particular come to mind. Exceptionally well said though, and quite agreed.
“…but the times when I can desire it are never, I think, those when this world seems harshest.” Same here. I want to stay and work on this bit of the Creation. Hey, Heaven will be there, right?