Dying ruins the flow

I know EE tries very hard to be DE and the Uncomfortable Chair was a memorable moment. But what that game had was, on top of the autosave system, a way to heal in the last moment and avoid the catastrophe.

Here, I lost a good chunk of progress because the goblin (ha, ha) asked if I have a girlfriend.

Why would you include something so immersion-breaking is beyond my imagination. Is there a way to turn on god mode and be done with this sort of bullshit?