Originally posted by Rhapsody:

Just made two corpse runs escorting my buddies who each died at different spots while unprepared and undergeared for the biome. Death happens, but it's recoverable and entirely avoidable with practice and effort.

Yeah, but the option to keep my inventory on death would make it so that I, a solo player, wouldn't have to just look at that jolly roger on the map and accept that my best gear and food is there now and I won't be getting it back in any meaningful amount of time and grind more supplies to get back to the state I was at... AGAIN.