How would your character kick the bucket?

[OMega_ARcane]

Actually coming out with a book series on the subject. It's about this normal miner who makes a living mining normal ore and other stones. He one day, while mining comes across some weird message in a bottle. When he finally opened the message a treasure chest seemed to appear out of no where while he "deciphered" the secret message. He went to open the treasure chest...but it was a trap! He fought off all the monsters with just enough energy to use his last potion on himself. That's when he was sucked in by some sort of dimensional portal to never be found again!!!......or so everyone thought....

Book 2: He wakes up in some area he's never seen before where monsters continuously ambush him after every chest he opens is also a trap! Is he bound to an eternity of opening chest and getting ambushed? Is this the after life? Will he ever find the real treasure?