How do you handle character death?

This guy gets it. Modern players are such gargantuan pussies.

You honor your brother by never forgetting him. He will live forever in your memories of him.

Thank you user. We have tributes for him every year. Not a day goes by without thoughts of him.

Thank you guys. It does mean a lot.

Wait, was the player mad the DM was trying to fudge his death, or the DM was trying to adjust damage to auto-kill the player, or spare him, or what?

As a player with cynical pragmatism. Make sure the death wasn't in vain and can benefit the rest of the party (unless we're talking TPK on in-party betrayal) and that I can resume participation with another character.
As a character, well, it depends on the character. Anything from going through all five stages of Kubler-Ross to psychopathic disregard.

Resurrection spells have been a thing for a good long while, and fudging's been around for at least as long as that.
Death never had the absolute hold on RPG design that you grumbling jackholes seem to think.

A few games having options for death not mattering or being a risk--as much as it's not my bag, it is simply cutting to the chase and dispensing with some of the theatricality. Death is and has always been the least interesting fail state and that's especially true in a campaign where characters drop like flies. It becomes a nuisance. You dread it not because it is the death of a character but because, oh great, now we have to stop or slow down as so-and-so rolls up a new guy and the GM works out how to shunt them back into the story.

In the days of AD&D for many groups the solution was often to just change the name on the character sheet. To the point where the 2e core rules say something to the effect of "if/when you do this don't just replace Bob with Bob II."

I eat the corpse because I'm playing a hillbilly bear

Your brother was a fucking pussy, and you should emulate him by fucking killing yourself, you gaping faggot.

This has to be pasta. nobody can misread a post as straightforward as OP's

I hope you feel bad about yourself and your life for a long damn time. Fuck you. Don't go faffing about with the loss of somebodies loved ones. Choke on shame.

Delicious pasta