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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5217498" data-attributes="member: 2303">In the OP, you say its a cyberpunk/fantasy works. I think issues like this are very appropriate for such a cyberpunk setting. The death penalty would assuredly include dismembering and/or burning the corpse to make the resurrection more difficult, perhaps even animation as an undead. This should be true in a medieval fantasy society with resurrection. In a more advanced society, measures would be stricter, up to and including capturing the soul.Resurection is limited by the availability of clerics, which in turn depends on the level of development in society. In a socially advanced society, there would be many specialists - in a fantasy society not just doctors and engineers, but also clerics and wizards. Magic suddenly becomes available on a completely new scale - and issues like the one in the OP come to the fore. I recall Dragonstar and the discussion we had about elite kamikaze agents spending their time dead, being Resurrection True-ed when needed and deployed again as deep probe suicide agents. All you need to resurrect them is their "social security number" or other unique identifier. The time between missions is spent in their alignment's version of "heaven" - even demon lords could make pocket paradises for such people to spend their "dead time" in, just to keep the agents willing and viable. A very scary angle on the Hassashin theme.</blockquote>