[Fifi]

I wouldn't.

It's hard to articulate this, but for me, death isn't a "feature." It's part of the life cycle. It's what happens when things go very wrong. It's heart breaking. Especially when it's not your pc who dies, but your pc's friend. Now there's a hole in thier life. Things have changed. Irrevocably. Things change every time you're presented a choice where there is danger.

It's almost impossible to verbalize it. It has nothing to do with equipiment or investment of time. It has to do with immediacy, with your heart in your throat.

Have you ever read a novel them made you weep? I've sat at my keyboard and wept when my pc died. Why someone else's pc died. When an npc died.

I've spitefully and gleefully laughed at the death of someone my pc detested.

It's a different experience. It makes the game experience round and full and whole for me.