They have finally exposed a method so we can get rid of (or change) the death messages that came out with 1.8. What I am talking about is those white messages like "jeremy was killed by zombie" or "justin tried to swim in lava".
See I dont know because say someone dies and Someone else is near them the 1 guy could ask nicely to get his stuff. Ok bad example here is a good ex. ok say me and lucky4life go out into the wild and we go into a cave but go seprate ways and then I die he can see that message of death and then go get my stuff if he felt like it. If not then I would have to run my butt to get my stuff.
True, but you can just as easily ask him rather than hoping he will acknowledge your death. It worked like that before they were introduced.
The message just says that you died, not where you died. You would still have to tell him where to go.