No matter how careful and painstaking you are, disaster will strike sooner or later. There's a consolation prize, though; thanks to the [http://wwwdiablo.diabloiiincgamers.netcom/gallery/showgallery.php?/cat=532 /537 Hardcore Graveyard]. Dead characters can be immortalized there, with a screenshot and an appropriately categorized epitaph, as [http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=665388 explained here].