[2019] Lost my 1st HC character (lvl 18 - Paladin)

Yeah, was just cruising easily and then hit some spiders that were casting frost. Yowzers. Dropped health like a rock. Every mob prior to that was easy Q and E for me.

Hit my 1 to heal. Bam dropped again.

Then died. :(

Then saw that I could play the character again but looks like it's not a HC char? Is this the intended purpose? One of the joys of HC that I love in Diablo III is that when you die that's it. Goodbye loot. Goodbye stash.

How does LE HC work? It might be in the game I just need to find/read up on it.

Anyways, 3 hours into the game and it's pretty fun so far and looking forward to rolling more HC chars.