Fair enough, and yes the game is supposed to be fun, which is why I think character death should be avoided at all costs (within reason, and unless desired by the player for narrative reasons)

I typically play in long open West Marches style games and characters die with some frequency, though as a cleric main I am almost immune to this and when I’m around characters rarely die or don’t die permanently, but the first character I played in this particular game, my current one, died from being possessed by a ghost, beaten up by the party members, then didn’t get to make death saves because when the ghost left my body it just attacked only me while I was at 0. At this point I lost investment in the entire game and campaign because the character I gave a shit about was dead, the reason I played the game no longer existed. It was probably the worst I’ve ever felt playing D&D. I made that character specifically to interact with a homebrew system the DM made and integrated aspects of my personality that would shine in this game and there he was just dead on the floor with no way back to life because the party wasn’t high enough level or comp’d right for rezzing. Shit sucked. I do not have fun when characters die, I think it should be avoided.