Party member death isn't working (and sucks to begin with)

I'm putting this here even though this is at least partly bugged, but even the bugs aside, I don't think this matter has been fully solved to a satisfying degree.

I just ran Factory with Kaybrie, and she was downed. Since I am a stealth character, I entered stealth to disengage, which prompted Kaybrie's countdown to death clock (other party members can't see this though, so it doesn't help too much anyways). I immediately left stealth right over the body in a room with no enemies, and she died and respawned anyways a few rounds later.

Obviously something isn't working as intended here, but that aside, I still think you should be able to keep people from respawning while in stealth. There is just nothing a ranged character can do once the front line goes down other than stealth out, and I don't think that should mean the death of the party. I also don't understand the IC motivation for not counting stealthed characters as being able to stabilize their comrades. I believe this was initially done to prevent some kind of OOC gimmickry?

As I said, I think this needs to be something of a discussion in addition to just a bug report, so lemme know what y'all think.