Whenever you die, you are forced to both wait for the entire animation of the screen going red and then returned to the main menu. Before you can even get to load a save file.  

At least we could be allowed to pause the game during the dying animation.    

And yes, this is a mald request. I have died 3 times trying to MOVE away from a wind mill. Twice because the character magically detached from the ladder while going down. And another just walking down a hill side (apparently you instantly die if you try to run down a hill side).  

If the game is going to be this unstable, at the very least we could speed up getting past BS deaths.