What a gnashing of teeth over nothing. Considering at any level you can just return and run back to where you died, with the same exact effects, having someone raise you at 14 doesn't make anything easier. All it does is add convenience of not having to run. That's it.

As an aside, judging people's experience in game, based on the info on the side is a bit of logic fail. Many people have multiple characters; Cairdeas has a character they've been with since the start (Midgarg Zolom IIRC), but has used Cairdeas for posting on the official forums. Hardly a secret.