Quote Originally Posted by Ryutamashiisan View Post
3) replace living dead with dread spikes.

Dread spikes. Prevents you from falling below 1hp and absorbs between 50-100% of all incoming damage as HP for the duration.
If they were going to replace Living Dead, I'd rather they keep it in line with our abilities getting tied into our story.
Call up a copy of our character at full health as a noncontrolled pet with it projecting a Cover effect on us for the duration.

Effectively doubles our HP before we can be killed as our ultimate survival technique while keeping in line with the story's tendency to have us project someone to help us cope with a trauma.