Why does everybody bring up the dead ends? You have to try REALLY hard to screw yourself over. MM isn't a game that is actively trying to kill you (but it will let you kill yourself through stupidity). All the dead ends and deaths I can think of are the direct result of doing something that you know to be dumb (filling the pool back up with someone in it, mating with a giant severed tentacle, developer fluid in the plant, giving a poor broken soul of a man his only loved thing in the world, only inside out, heating up radioactive liquid, playing with the fuse box to a house powered by a nuclear generator, etc).

It's been a while (twenty years?), so maybe I'm missing something, but I think you are exaggerating on the severity of the dead end thing.