[Threshold]

You stubbornly refuse to grasp the fact that this is nothing more than a feature choice. Permadeath is not in and of itself any more conducive to good role play, nor does it inherently have less "issues with staying IC." You refuse to understand that there are extremely well developed game, book, and movie worlds where non-permanent death is an integral part of the design.

Most non-permadeath RP oriented games build the death/rebirth system into their game lore. Thus, people are indeed "playing the character the way it would be played" because that is the nature of life and death in their game world.

Please, for everyone's sake, open your mind to more possible game worlds than the discontinued D&D Dark Sun campaign.