When a character dies they spawn a ghost, the ghost has a custom sprite for each character. In addition to dropping everything the character is holding the character drops a new meat. The new meat is called "long pig" and can be cooked and dried. I don't know about hunger or health, but when eaten raw it drops your sanity by 40 points. Long pig currently has a monster meat sprite. I asked if that was a placeholder and was told that it will most likely have custom art. I asked if that specific type of meat will drop for every character, like the robot since it doesn't make a ton of sense for the robot to drop meat. I was told that it is possible that some characters will have character specific meat. This is contrary to what someone posted in the comments of my previous post (which is that klei didn't want to do character specific meat). I'm just relaying over what I was told.