I was goofing around in Angel of Pacifist today, HNTR difficulty, and the game crashed several times for me when I died in the late game. Looking through my mortems, the farthest that I got without the game crashing when I died was Deimos level 1. The last crash in the log posted below occurred at the instant of being killed by a lost soul on JC's level (shoulda packed another nuke). DoomRL attempted to save my game after each crash but the saves were corrupted.
I hope this is useful.
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message     : Lua call OnDestroy caught ELuaException!
Call path     : cells.30.OnDestroy
Call params   : (74,11)
Error message : Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 1:42:06
Error level : ERROR
Message     : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path     : beings[captain].OnAction
Call params   : ()
Error message : LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 1:42:09
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message     : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[captain].OnAction -- LuaError: cells.30.OnDestroy -- Get(items.4.group) failed!
  $004624B9  TDOOMLUA__ONERROR,  line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
  $00450DE7  TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK,  line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
  $004A719B  TTHING__CALLHOOK,  line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
  $0049E4D4  TBEING__ACTION,  line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0049E5EB  TBEING__CALL,  line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0041EFDA  TDOOM__RUN,  line 369 of src/doombase.pas
  $00401B15  main,  line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 1:58:29
Error level : ERROR
Message     : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path     : beings[sergeant].OnAction
Call params   : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 1:58:42
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message     : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[sergeant].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
  $004624B9  TDOOMLUA__ONERROR,  line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
  $00450DE7  TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK,  line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
  $004A719B  TTHING__CALLHOOK,  line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
  $0049E4D4  TBEING__ACTION,  line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0049E5EB  TBEING__CALL,  line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0041EFDA  TDOOM__RUN,  line 369 of src/doombase.pas
  $00401B15  main,  line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 11:11:16
Error level : ERROR
Message     : Lua hook OnAction caught ELuaException!
Call path     : beings[lostsoul].OnAction
Call params   : ()
Error message : Get(items.5.group) failed!
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Timestamp   : 19/03/2012 11:11:25
Error level : FATAL EXCEPTION
Message     : Fatal exception encountered
An unhandled exception occurred at $004624B9 :
ELuaException : LuaError: beings[lostsoul].OnAction -- Get(items.5.group) failed!
  $004624B9  TDOOMLUA__ONERROR,  line 608 of src/doomlua.pas
  $00450DE7  TLUASYSTEM__PROTECTEDRUNHOOK,  line 539 of e:/Projects/fpcvalkyrie/src/vluasystem.pas
  $004A719B  TTHING__CALLHOOK,  line 141 of src/dfthing.pas
  $0049E4D4  TBEING__ACTION,  line 1170 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0049E5EB  TBEING__CALL,  line 1188 of src/dfbeing.pas
  $0041EFDA  TDOOM__RUN,  line 369 of src/doombase.pas
  $00401B15  main,  line 71 of src/doomrl.pas
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