Introduce a suicide button perhaps?
I was going to recommend this game to my friends/relatives, and although I do recognise the fact that the game is currently in alpha, I cannot and will not let any of my acquaintances come to a similar fate of my own via buying this game, if such a simple issue cannot be resolved.
(Reproducibility is "N/A" because I am still stuck there so I cannot do it again, not that I would if I could)