The death-DEC EXECUTES; lives are re-initialized to 3 during respawn (refines F120)

DEC $98 RAN. Yet every [PAC] frame sample read lives=3 and the poll-based [TRAP] $98 printed nothing: lives went 3->2->3 inside one poll gap.

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