Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

You go to your gravestone and hit the letter "E" if on pc. At that point you get all your stuff. If you die on the way, you make a new stone but your old stone still has your stuff and you need to find it.

Luckily there is a time period where you can't lose your skills from dying a 2nd, 3rd, or in the case of my friend 30+

Anything else is a bug and should be treated as such.

Originally posted by Fzanco:

Tombstone stays on map forever, tombstones will only generate though if you have something in your inventory. There's a few more details to know but I think this answers your main query for now

Alright so what I'm getting from this is I don't risk losing my items permanently by death? That's actually great news, I like being punished for my dumb mistakes but losing my items I've worked hard on feels a bit heavy. Also thank god we have that skill loss grace period, the amount of skill levels I've lost after discovering the Swamp is already in the double digits.