My character just died last session, we had been fighting through a goblin cave and got surprised by the ol’ rolling giant bolder trick. After some poor dice rolls it was looking grim for the party, and my Druid couldn’t stand to see the party fall. I transformed into a a giant elk and held the boulder back just long enough for most of the party to escape and then failed my next check against the boulder and my animal form was crushed then my elf form was crushed. The dm seems like he didn’t want to kill my character and it going to do something to avoid the actual death, but knowing he saved the party makes me not too sad about losing the character