So I was just told about a bug in the game where if you die you can hit the escape key and it alows you to continue playing the game even with negative HP but the death screen stays. This would technically let me complete a run after dying. Maybe a change to the rules stating if you die the run become invalid would be good.
Death abusing could potentially be quicker for accomplishing the objective of the game. In general, exploits of glitches and/or bugs are allowed for Any% categories. If this particular bug becomes a strategy where it polarizes the runs in a given category, the orginal category would be renamed to be descriptive of the restriction that is not allowed in a run. Any% will almost always be the category that accomplishes the objective of the game quickest.