Dealing with death in tabletop RPGs:

• Miraculously returned to life by kindly old priest
  
  
• Soul implanted in clockwork robot by ethically dubious wizard
  
  
• Filthy druid speed-runs cycle of reincarnation, brings you back as an owl
  
  
• Replaced by identical twin with suspiciously similar name seeking revenge for death of sibling
  
  
• Talk GM into making the next adventure a flashback to before you died
  
  
• Promote familiar or animal companion to player character status
  
  
• Apply ghost template and continue adventuring, but now with awesome ghost powers
  
  
• Invoke “you keep what you kill” and declare that the monster that killed you is now your character
  
  
• Just show up again next session, claim to have been on vacation, and refuse to acknowledge any suggestion to the contrary
  
  
• Actually roll up a new character