Because you might get a laugh out of it, and so you whm and rdm's might think ahead in the future, I shall recount to you what may very likely be the fastest death in FFXI history.
I was playing in Quifim last night, on the Tower side, and as it must, night fell. So its dark, and our party did what every party pretty much does, we ran pell mell for the tower so we could huddle like frightened rabbits next to the zone. Well we sit there, our thief pulling clippers to us so the time wasnt wasted and all in all things were going well. Until of course the required train of wights and banshee's come charging in to be dropped at our doorstep. The wonderful thing is, this happens just as the clipper gets to us, so we cant just finish it off and move. No, we have to fight the bloody thing and pray the wights dont turn on us. WEll they do. Two wights later everyone but me has managed to zone and im staring down at my own dead body. Thats alright, I dont mind, the mages made it to safty and hell, thats what warriors are for right?
Fortunatly for me, a red mage in full artifact armor happens to be right there and she's raising me. Im thinking great. How can this be better? Zero down time! This is the life. I should always fight near raisers.
I click to accept, and watch my body float up into the air, then start back down just as a wight strolls right through my screen. Before my feet hit the ground from the raise, im dead. AGAIN! That same bloody wight was still wandering around looking for more idiots to maim and it found me, newly risen with only a handful of hps. I mean before my feet hit the ground from the raise im flat on my back. ARGH!!!! You wanna talk about frustrating? Thats bloody frustrating. I got a half dozen or more tells from people telling me how bad my luck was (like I need to know) and several apologies from the red mage. The red mage raised me again, and this time, before my feet hit the ground, I was hit with two CureII's and a CureIII. I guess everyone took pity on me and wanted to make sure it didnt happen again.
Anyways, I think it must have the record for the fastest death in the history of the game, since I doubt I was ever actually alive. It was more funny than anything and heck, if a warrior cant deal with death he's in the wrong buisness. So it didnt bother me, but its definatly something to mention to you guy's that do raises. Watch the field when your raising, or you might be doing more damage than good. Raises apparently attract Undead and when your freshly raised, you cant handle them. Laugh and Learn.