I made a fireplace to get dry after some heavy night-rain.
After I got dry I decided (stupidly) to try and jump over the fireplace to see if it was possible to avoid taking damage from it.
Normally when I get to close to a fireplace I take a little amount of damage and I will be good if I just leave its vicinity soon after.
I was only in the vicinity of the fireplace for the amount of time it takes to sprint and jump over it.
But when I was about 2 meters on the other side of it (after I jumped it) I started taking damage, and it did not stop.
I kept sprinting and when I was about 10 meters from it I went unconscious (like it was not only doing normal damage but also shock damage) and then I laid on the ground for 20-25 seconds while taking continuous damage and died.
I lost a fully geared character and was way to far from the spawn-points to have any chance of getting it back.
Bugs like this destroy the game and takes away any remaining urge to play for a good while (and I just took a 2 week hiatus because of the inventory desynch-bug...), you really need to get it fixed.