Ridiculous death due, in my opinion, to flawed design.

[fph]

When starting your next character, press "=", then select "cheat options", "allow player to avoid death". It is a good option for learning how to play this game.
However, see, everyone here agrees that part of the fun in Angband is in being careful to avoid death. It's part of the challenge. If you do not need to be skilled and careful, then the game reduces to "click here to reach level 2", "click here to reach level 3" and so on. And we all play Angband for the challenge.

Other remark: Most of the times, 'being careful' does not mean 'having all possible resistances covered', but 'identify immediately situations that can kill you, and avoid them'.