My 'simple' solution is turning out to be incredibly frustrating.

I have no idea why but the DEAD stat is mysteriously applying to characters.

I do not have any idea about this. 

But I have an idea how to do it without the mark "Dead".
Maybe we should realize a system "Purgatory"? After the death a character is transferred to some location. Character is automatically started trigger on this location. This trigger opens a menu that blocks any control + our character use a dead- animation? What do you think?

I have this setup working.  It's very minimal and basic right now so I'm going to polish it up a bit before I send it your way.

Basically, what it does right now is one of two things:

1) If the player has a Vitalyser it respawns them at the beginning of the dungeon.  I scrapped the Vanilla UI entirely and don't know how to respawn in place without it.  But the Vanilla UI was causing problems I didn't understand.

2) If the player has no Vitalysers, they respawn in the QA Test room.  We can always change the location later.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5_51x6ALcyzTDZQT2VGNjNFaWc/view?usp=sharing


It's simple, but it works.  If there's anything more you'd like me to do to it, lemme know.  I'll get to it later on.  Right now I'm very frustrated with the thing.

 

Does that mean it works?

This is a cool mod. I've always been on the lookout for something in-between normal mode and hard-core. Having a few lives is a great option. Also brings up the opportunity for some cool risk / reward scenarios.

Oh, gytfunke, is there a way to only 1 items are removed from the inventory? Now, after the resurrection removes all resurrect items. 

I think maybe add a function - "Run Vitalizer". Then you get the quest item - "Working Vitalizer", which will be removed from the inventory.