I loaded a save game and got the you died screen with all of my things floating in water and on the bank where I spawned at world creation. When I re-spawned, it was in the bed where I last slept BUT I had none of my items. Luckily, I was near my original spawn point and was able to recover my items the first time this happened. It just happened again, but this time instead of spawning at the last spawn point I actually was returned to the original spawn point but this time all of my items weren't there. Interestingly, I didn't lose the 5 experience points I had, the first time I lost everything. I have seen reports of being spawned in the air above the OG spawn point and falling to your death but this is not what is happening.
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Same problem has happened multiple times in our realm to multiple players. Often when loading the game, we spawn at cloud level, crashing to the ground to die, only to respawn again at the bed most recently slept at, far away. Pretty frustrating, especially for the kids.
I think this is a duplicate of https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-38374
It is not the same as MCPE-38374. It has happened to many MANY times since the update and there definitely is not a large fall involved. Every time it happens, it just loads straight up on to the "you died" screen, with no fall at all. After a few time of it happening (and not finding my stuff), I finally noticed it was at my spawn point. At least I can get my gear back. I have started making two backups of my world every time I save. I make a copy of the old copy in case the new copy and current world spawn me dead. At least I have an option to go back in time a bit if I choose.
edit: And it just happened again. This time my axe went missing. Time to put everything in a chest before I close I guess. The closing and saving process is going to start taking a few minutes.
The same thing also happened to me I had to use commands to change the world spawn point to prevent that.