[GMThrust]

In a nutshell, this verse is about how bad it’s going to be in the end, that people will hope for death rather than live.

[BipolarBob]

Yes, but it talks as if death is not an option. In a mortal body, death is always an option.

[Deo volente]

After the global thermonuclear destruction which will be the end result of the manic thirst for war, the living will envy the dead. Nanorobots will be irrelevant.
The Lord cannot return soon enough.