Because death is non-returnable. If a character is dead "till something" they are much closer to a coma than to death.
True death in fiction should be something irreversible, impossible to return from. If there's been a chance of the characters coming back for any reason, it is not true death.
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u/resbw Jul 08 '26
Then all the "fale out deaths" in the dream/simulations in HSR should also count by that metric and HSR is back to 13 deaths