Nah, people die, and 'runners die wholesale. Interestingly, it's only my second character to die so far (I'm not counting Paranoia characters, of course). In fact, as careless as Fractal grew to be (if one remember our first missions, when he definitely was pretty careful) he has lived a lot. I'll have fond memories of him, but I guess his time was over, and maybe it's only fitting that I change characters now. I don't know if I could keep putting his shoes right now.
Fractal deserves his rest. He has stretched his luck far enough. And I believe he was angry but smiling inside while he kicked the bucket. Even a stupid death is a real one when soaked into adrenaline and spiced with a larger-than-life spotlight moment. He wanted to feel alive more than be alive... even though it may be a shorter existence, I guess it was a well-played one.
About this burning an Edge point thing, I've seen some discussion about, and I think RAW does not clarify it. So that falls in GM ruling territory. In this specific stream of games, does one need to have an spare use of Edge to burn an edge point, or does one needs only to have the point to burn?