I can confirm this: I dug myself into a deep cave containing lava, water, a zombie, and a skeleton. I allowed the zombie to slay me, and I can still here every single noise. (The noises being lava popping, water flowing, a zombie moaning, and a skeleton's bones clicking on the stone) Interestingly enough, when swapping to the multiplayer menu, the sounds stop, and when switching back to the main menu, the sounds come back. Even more interesting, when entering the options menu from the main menu, you can see your death screen as if you pressed escape ingame. There is no red overlay, nor buttons though. You can also press escape on the options menu, and it will bring you back to your death screen, prompting that you delete the world. I pressed "delete world" yet it never deleted it oddly. I could head into the singleplayer menu and still open the world. Opening the world would sadly bring me back to the death screen. After truly deleting the world via the singleplayer menu, I could still go back into "options" and revive it by pressing escape. When creating a new world, it would, again, show my death screen through the menu.
I can confirm this: I dug myself into a deep cave containing lava, water, a zombie, and a skeleton. I allowed the zombie to slay me, and I can still here every single noise. (The noises being lava popping, water flowing, a zombie moaning, and a skeleton's bones clicking on the stone)
Interestingly enough, when swapping to the multiplayer menu, the sounds stop, and when switching back to the main menu, the sounds come back.
Even more interesting, when entering the options menu from the main menu, you can see your death screen as if you pressed escape ingame. There is no red overlay, nor buttons though.
You can also press escape on the options menu, and it will bring you back to your death screen, prompting that you delete the world. I pressed "delete world" yet it never deleted it oddly. I could head into the singleplayer menu and still open the world. Opening the world would sadly bring me back to the death screen.
After truly deleting the world via the singleplayer menu, I could still go back into "options" and revive it by pressing escape.
When creating a new world, it would, again, show my death screen through the menu.