Manual

A Special Note on Dying
No matter how good an adventurer you are, eventually you
will know the sting of death. Thankfully, death in the World of
Warcraft isn’t permanent.
Ghosts
When your health is reduced to 0 or less, through battle or accident, you
die. A release window pops up over your corpse with a button you can
press to release your spirit. If you choose the Release Spirit button or wait
longer than five minutes, your spirit appears as a ghost at a nearby
graveyard. All zones have at least one graveyard where dead characters
reappear.
At the graveyard is a spirit healer. When you are a ghost, you can come
back to life by retrieving your corpse or by asking the spirit healer to
resurrect you. If you ask the ghost healer to resurrect you, you will lose a
significant portion of experience. This amount will never force you to lose
a level, however. If you do not wish to be raised immediately, then you
must run to your corpse and recover it. It is almost always better to run to
your corpse rather than ask a spirit healer to resurrect you. That's because
all you lose when you run to your corpse is time. Aside from this slight
inconvenience, there are no other penalties associated with dying and
retrieving your corpse. Most zones have multiple graveyards interspersed
around the zone so you likely won't be too far from your corpse anyway.
Corpse Retrieval
While you are a ghost, you run at increased speed. When you get close to
your corpse, a resurrection window appears on your screen. To resurrect
yourself, press the Resurrect Now button in the window. Be very careful
about where you revive yourself. If you died fighting monsters, make sure
the monsters are gone. When you raise yourself from the dead, your new
body will replace your ghost, and you will appear with your health and
mana bars half full.
Resurrection Waiting Period
If you have died repeatedly over a short period of time, subsequent
resurrections might have a waiting period of a few minutes before you can
return to life. However, this waiting period resets to zero if you then play
for an extended period without dying. There is no resurrection waiting
period if you are resurrected by the spell of another player.
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