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I think when you die you go back to the last checkpoint, and then you survive whatever it was that killed you. And you lose your memory of the time you died, so all you remember is the surviving arc.
I read a short story once that made me think about something similar, that everytime we die our consciousness shifts to the multiverse where we didn't make whatever choice lead to it. To everyone in that initial universe you'd still be dead but you'd continue on somewhere else.
It’s not just a story. That’s how life actually works.