I have yet to come across a reasonable setting where death isn't a possibility.

I've always been upfront with my philosophy on death, on any thread. I come from a place where character death was taken very seriously. If your character died, you were not to use that character again without getting ostracized by the community. While I don't take things to that extreme, it did give me a health respect for the concept. Coupled with my background as a combat roleplayer, I see death as a necessary inclusion in most, if not all, roleplays.

This has also lead me to some of my greatest frustrations on RPG - GMs that have no respect for the concept of death. Characters only die in <x> situations. Especially in an environment with any form of combat between players, I find this ridiculous. It made death seem incredibly disingenuous - the sudden, emotional turmoil you'd expect to come with it was not there. The combat, with no threat of anything other than a good thrashing, even if I sword cleaved through my neck, seemed fake.

At this point I have opted to stick to running my own threads for now, as it seems hard for me to find a GM with similar enough views that I feel I can participate in a thread..