Learn English – Sayings similar to “a picture is worth a thousand words”

Interestingly, English has almost the same expression: "fishing in troubled waters", going back to at least the 16th century.

It seems to originate in a belief among fishermen that fish rise to the surface in foul weather and may be more readily netted—hence the phrase "mackerel gale", a storm which promises a good catch.

But very early it was applied figuratively to just such situations as yours. Grafton's Chronicle and Foxe's Actes & Monuments (both 1569) quote a letter from Pope Innocent III warning King John of England not to trust those who advise him to dispute the authority of the Church:

Settle not yourself to obey their persuasions, which always desire your unquietness, whereby they may fish the better in the water when it is troubled.

I have not yet found their source for this; if authentic, it takes the phrase back to 1208 and, presumably, in Latin.

Different cultures are often difficult to map to each other, but the most likely equivalent is die in my own bed.

Agosto, I want to die in my own bed, in my own house.

Succession, Joyce Carlow

“I am doing nothing wrong. We are not breaking the law,” she said. “What alternative do I have? The other methods, to my knowledge, are either illegal or I would need to go to [the Dignitas clinic in] Switzerland, and I want to die in my own bed.”

Guardian 19 October 2014, quoting Jean Davies who committed suicide by starvation.

I saw you could live and furnish with grace
Even a lion's den, if you've no other place.
I don't even mind to die alone, to be dead,
But I want to die in My own bed.

I want to die in my own bed, Yehuda Amichai, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara and Benjamin Harshav