Greetings Durntron!
Thank you for reaching out to us and welcome to our forums.
In order to properly assess your issue, could you please give us the following information:
1 - Does this issue continue to happen to this day?
2 - Have you attempted this in another server or in Singleplayer to see if it also occurs?
3 - Are you using a stable internet connection?
4 - Has this situation happened always when you died or only in rare ocasions?
5 - If this situations happened rarely, do you remember how you died?
We’ll be waiting for your reply!