Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7224639-20130409093055/@comment-10207438-20130803214741

80.244.69.207 wrote: "I always thought that when the Dragonborn died it just auto reloaded the previous save"

We all know that is just fictions, not even if it were truth it really unlikely never will happend.

You read to much lore... It was a joke, you know, the kind people laugh to.

anyways, to the actual thread, there is no way to know, seeing as The Last Dragonborn never died in the canon(even if it was temporary)