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The death rules state:
A 0-level character that reaches 0 hit points is irrevocably killed, but a 1st-level character that reaches 0 hit points collapses and begins bleeding out.
Later though, under Recovering the Body, it says you can "flip over the body" to discover them alive (on a successful save). My take in running this was that "irrevocably" meant just that, and you could not discover a 0-level person alive later. I don't want to be too harsh, though, if that isn't what was intended.
The intent of the rule is that 0-level dudes die quickly and they aren't intended to come back, but for regular characters they might seem "dead" but can be revived.
The idea is that 0-level characters are part of the funnel but no single character is important enough to worry about after death. We just discard them and move on.
But characters of level 1 and above are growing into the "hero" mode and should have a few extra chances at life before they are written out of the story.
Marv / Finarvyn DCC Minister of Propaganda; Deputized 6/8/11 (over 11 years of SPAM bustin'!)
DCC RPG playtester 2011, DCC Lankhmar trivia contest winner 2015; OD&D player since 1975
"The worthy GM never purposely kills players' PCs, He presents opportunities for the rash and unthinking players to do that all on their own."
-- Gary Gygax
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