Died to burnt fence

[RobinYoHood]

Was doing a zed burn every thing was routine and i went to jump a fence it was burned black my guy just stood there i press e to go over fence nothing. then i'm on fire swarmed by zeds 5 month old character is dead. So now i have to choose to cheat or quit cause im not grinding again and im going with quit. I had kinda planned on quitting its just such sad way to go out not in a blaze of glory and gun fire with my M16 and 20boxes of ammo but to a burnt fence.

[Cult of Nobody]

This is how you died...

[Playbahnosh]

"There was no hope of survival..."

Honestly though, I think most veterans can feel your pain. We've all lost long time characters with awesome skills and gear to something stupidly minuscule. Coincidence, but just two days ago my maxed out character also died a fiery death. I was burning corpses after cleaning an entire apartment building, stepped too close to the campfire, caught fire and died not 2 seconds later, me, all my gear along with my hopes and dreams, burnt to a crisp. I stared at the death screen in disbelief for a solid ten minutes. The irony in all this, I actually had an extinguisher on me, which ironically also burned to ash...

Zomboid has way more realism than most would think. The tiniest of mistakes can end your run instantly, regardless of how skilled or geared up you are. One zombie scratch, one errant branch slashing your jugular, accidentally vaulting over a railing on the 5th floor, one misclick eating an entire rotten ham, one step too close to the fire, etc. Most of my long time characters died in some of the most spectacularly stupidest ways possible.

Actually very few people get to go out in a blaze of glory. Death is stupid and meaningless for most of us. Did you know, that just in the US 18000 people die of bathing related accidents every year? Yea, like slipping in the shower or simple heat shock. About 500 people die simply falling out of bed. Heck around 300 people die each year just tripping and falling on the street! I mean, can you imagine living your amazing life, full of plans and aspirations, then one day you are strolling down to your local coffee shop to grab a cuppa with your friends, and then suddenly you trip, fall, crack your neck, and that's all she wrote. Your life, extinguished in an instant. It's no one's fault, it's stupid, unpreventable, meaningless and just a bit ridiculous. A few years later no one will even know you existed. No one remembers "some guy who fell".

In Zomboid this is exponentially true. Remember the intro:
This is the end times. There was no hope for survival. This is how you died...
Zomboid's world is over, it ended, you're nothing but a statistical error. You were always meant to die from the start, all you can do is delay the inevitable. You can be awesome at the game and keep surviving for a long time, but eventually you're going to perish, probably to something minuscule and stupid. All you can do is laugh about it, start a new character, take an axe to that stupid burnt fence and keep your old toasty character's legacy alive. Die and die again, try and try again.