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Enforce a deal with the devil
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If your game lore is a fantasy one or similar, it likely has a God of death and a place where you go when you die. You can arrange it so that in order to get resurrected, it isn't sufficient to just pay x amount of resources - the dead person must also make a personal deal with the guardian of this realm of the dead. The character must do some task for them when they return to life, possibly in a timely manner, or they will die again. 

Maybe this task is a moral dilemma. "You must defile the temple of Fluffy in the Land of the Unicorns before the next full moon" and the dead character (or another character in the party) is a Unicorn Priest of Fluffy - you get the idea.

This can be a story/quest hook in itself and it can also give some RP opportunities for the player who's character is now dead - have them play their dead character in the afterlife.

Perhaps the resurrected character isn't truly alive until the task has been completed? Make they come back as a ghost or undead with various (lack of) abilities until they have finished the deal they made.

Die again? Now the stakes for getting ressurected are even higher!