When you die, the game pops up a sudden popup message without warning, before the player knows what kills him. Player death should be more like a slow realisation, not a sudden and rude popup. A solution would be adding a (more) prompt before announcing death:

The orcish warrior hits you, killing you! (more)
*death popup*

Or just make the way it is in ADOM, with no popup:

The orcish warrior hits you, killing you! You die... (more)