Constantly dying after I spawn near my backpack.

It's unclear if you mean A) there's a horde of zombies/animals around your backpack, and they keep killing your player character before you can recover; or B) your player character is dying literally instantly on spawn, like due to a physics glitch. In either case, I suppose, esthergray's advice to choose a different spawn option would be a good idea. You could sneak up on the zombies or wait for them to disperse in case A (though don't take too long or your backpack could despawn). Or in case B, hopefully whatever the issue is is localized and your character won't instantly die when they spawn somewhere else.

If it is B and it happens consistently, then you may want to file a bug report. Here's the starting point for doing that. https://community.7daystodie.com/a21-bugs-main/bug-pool/how-to-report-bugs-found-in-a21-r4/

Originally posted by Daeminos: …it seems that it may be a bug of some kind.

I concur. I’m moving your thread to Support & Bug Reports. You can visit that link I posted, or the pinned thread in this sub-forum, for instructions on how to get your output log. Whether you post it here or file a bug report, the output log would have the best chance of revealing the problem.