Going to sleep and Waking up

Based on our class discussion that we had in class and based on what I took away from it this is what I got. Death as Paul talked about is like sleeping as in we will just fall asleep (die) until we are awaken by God. now resurrection will not come until God is ready to come back and take us to heaven. But in Paul's letters he writes to the people of Corinth that they should not be afraid of death and be at ease because death is just another part of our walk with God.  Paul is completely self reliant on God and he is waiting on him for his deliverance. Now Paul also lives as if God was going to comeback right in his time, any second and really believed that he was coming.  Now as the belief of atheistic naturalism talks about death they call it just a plunge into oblivion, Paul talks to us about death and resurrection that it should be accepted with ease because it won't hurt and it will be painless. Now those that are dead before God has come; Paul says that first God will take those that are already asleep up into a medium state, and then those that are awake on the earth up next. Atheistic naturalism simply just talks about death as accepting the inevitable, and just simply falling into oblivion and there is nothing that you can do or say to help you for we all just die in the end. Now I honestly think that believing in what Paul says is a lot more calming, because it doesn't talk about just falling into oblivion. When I think of just falling asleep and waiting to wake up it makes me at ease and happy, but when I think about any other view on death I feel afraid and not at ease.