As you may, or should, know, dying in character does not mean your character is gone forever. Dying simply means your character has passed onto the afterlife, which is where they can be gone forever should they be killed at that point. To prevent people from just hopping into threads and doing as much damage as they can before killing themselves, we have implemented a life rule.
Each year (IRL) every character only has 7 lives. Upon the 8th death, that character is stuck in the afterlife until the 1st of January. The only exceptions to this are characters with the 'Unkillable' trait and Admin NPCs (i.e. quest characters).
Below is a list of characters who are trapped in the afterlife until January 1st, 2018: