You die when your health reaches 0%, or in other words when the sum of all your wounds reaches 100. It is not possible to die (or get hurt) from hunger or thirst, but they do decrease your survivability.
When you die, you leave all your items and equipment on your corpse, except for those that are [[nodropNon-drop]]. This includes the newbie items you get when you first start, [[deed]]s, [[writ]]s, [[contract]]s, any items you may have in a [[bag of keeping]] (BoK) or [[master bag of keeping]] (MBoK) and more.
Your corpse can only be looted by yourself, people of enemy kingdoms, and your friends. You can use the [[chat command]] '''/releasecorpse''' to allow anyone to loot your corpse. If the corpse has decayed (usually takes 24 real-life hours) the items that were on it will be a pile of items on the ground where you died, and no longer protected.