Options to revive before death?

[red bloom]

I'm not talking about removing the permadeath, that should not be removed at least in regular difficulties or higher. But I'm proposing having potential options to get your character back up in the event they lose all of their health. Like having a "self-revive" item where, if you have it in your backpack and run out of health, you'll be put in a downed state where you can fight (albeit more slowly) and if in the clear, you'll be able to revive yourself though not back to full health. Or if you bring 1 or more people in your group along with you (assuming PikPok ever puts a feature like this into the game) and you lose all your health, you'll be put in a downed state in which the other characters (if they don't die during the level) could revive you.

[forest yarrow]

I don't think there is any remotely grounded way to make something like this, being "downed" during a fight with a zombie is a death sentence. And you can't really have a fight where you lose the last of your health and the zombie ends up dead at the same exact moment, or at least I never had it happen

I'm all in favor of sending more people on a scavenge, or at least 2 people to different places.

[river epoch]

I personally think a self revive on top of being something totally ungrounded would defeat the purpose of playing cautiously as you no longer fear death as much because you basically have a extra life.

[random fox]

Imagine an option where you are injured and can not move, you can call in another survivor to come rescue them and heal them up using a walky talky.