I'm not too sure about getting bitten, one of the table top zombie games i played in, my character was bitten and they discovered he was immune to the virus. He ended up getting turned into a lab rat by another of the characters who had been a research scientist for the the CDC trying to come up with a cure or vaccine for the zombie plauge. As for a chance of dying, i'm not opposed to character death as long as it's gonna be part of the overall arch and asked first.