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human
[Destiny] Does our Ghost just make us a new, identical body or does it basically just stitch together our corpse on a molecular level, similar to how it heals?
gpt
I think* that since both you and your ghost are bound by light that it works similarly to teleportation or time travel.

A. It de-constructs your dead body and rebuilds it to the point that the body can survive. The Drifter noted that, during the dark age, guardians could and would die of starvation. They would then be resurrected but still be hungry.

B. Your ghost takes your body and time travels back to -from a few seconds to minutes- A moment where you were still alive. This would explain the checkpoints in Dark zones, but not in regular areas where you (in-universe) "respawn" almost immediately.