hey there @tbeaz1551 … lots of discussion points around the dead these days… you guys are awfully morbid! 
some quick points you might be interested in:
existing (lengthy) thread on dead folk…
developer quote from an older livestream…
Can we raise the dead?
Yes …it has to make it in, we don’t know how, but it has to make it in. There will be some way, you might not like it. Maybe this is how the zombie apocalypse starts … maybe the penalty for losing someone is that you have to ‘res’ them, and ‘ressing’ them too often could turn them into a zombie … zombie apocalypse should be a way to lose the game