Has this ever happened to you?
I was doing some solo baal runs with my frost zealot in Norm and was taking a beating from the second wave of minions and baal's decrepify. I saw my life drop to half, then as I tried to move back from the minions so I could tp to town, I took a serious and hit my life bulb emptied as I went to save and esc. It said that I had 'been slain' but, I left before the deeds screen ever came up and when I got back to the char selection screen, there was my pally where a ghost should've been. Lag? or Luck?