its hard to make the suspense otherwise, as u cant really feel to sympathize a character dying and revived 5 seconds later
so basically for online game, most easiest plot would be:
1) cannot log out
2) died for real(Accel World lack this, thus i cant feel the sympathy of just losing the game character
3) 1 + 2

so unless they can come up with another way to make us sympathize with the character, they had to stick with this formula