Friday Five--Life and Death

Yet again, I forgot to do the Friday Five last week. Some of these questions are difficult to answer in-character, so I'm going to do them out-of-character.

• Does your character have a good relationship with his family? Yes and no. Jeremias is, of course, a very happy husband, and Sera is a perfect angel to him. But his sister vanished without a word a few weeks ago, and his father is a drunken lecher living in Ratchet. Jere sends him money regularly, but that doesn't make a relationship.
  
• How does he relate to his guild and friends? He regards the Knights of Dusk to be an extension of his family. There are only two people whom he doesn't regard as a brother or a sister: Mysin and Kadiah. Of course, they probably don't know Jere's full biography, so maybe they haven't picked up on how Jeremias will fight anyone who says anything negative about Kadiah, or gotten the layered meaning of his referring to Mysin as "sire"...He's growing out of his need for affirmation, but it does make him go over the moon when either of them praises him. He's a good kid.
  
• If your character knew he would die tomorrow, how would he spend today? Jere's one for hoping; he probably wouldn't believe it if you told him he would certainly die tomorrow. Instead, he lives every day with the full realization that he could be dead within an hour, and tries never to leave needed words unsaid or needed actions undone. His time at home with his wife is indispensable, and he's worked hard to build her a pension that would last her for the rest of her life. He's unlocked the secret to a life well spent, without even knowing it. So the answer is: no differently from how he spends any other day.
  
• Has your character ever lost someone close to them? How did they die? How did that affect your character? Jere lost his mother just before the Scourge overran Lordaeron. She died of protracted illness; she was short-tempered and irritable because of her physical discomfort and her jealousy over her husband's infidelity. Jeremias, of course, always figured that her poor treatment of him stemmed from that, so he could forgive her--but her exacting standards and constant haranguing instilled in him a feeling of never being quite adequate. (His current spiritual crisis will result in this no longer being relevant to him, though.) When she passed, of course he was unhappy--this was his mother, after all--but he was also a little relieved that she would be at rest in the Light, and no longer miserable.
• How do you, as a roleplayer, tackle the question of death in a video game where resurrection spells and spirit healers abound? I usually just avoid the issue. If Jere falls in battle, I generally treat it as he got yet another of his famous head injuries. Nobody else in the guild seems to want to press the issue, and just as well. It's like politely forgetting that you have also killed Van Cleef: the person who just did it is, for the interim, the ONLY person to do it.

So that's what I've got. Anyone else?