help: dead and cant respawn?

OK, I am rather new but I thought I had a handle on the dieing bit. If you die, you either wait for a teamate to revive you (if a revive is available) and if a revive isn't available you respawn. So.... why amI laying here dead and my teamate doesnt have a revive on him?

I may be missing something here but this didn't seem right...

Because you're in Post-Sear and you're teammate is still alive? Everytime I've died, I've had to wait for a) my team to res me b) my team to drag my sorry butt through the next warp gate thing OR c) my remaining teammates to die so that we all respawned at the nearest monk station thing.

you only respawn when your whole team is dead

It happened to me once when a teammember was stuck outside the battle. Since he did not die the party was not resurrected and I had to abandon the mission and tp to town and restart it.

Every person in your party should have at least a res-sig as one of their 8 skills. If not, kill them. lol!
Every time you zone or get an story animation, your res-sig is recharged. So there should always be plenty of ressing available to keep people alive after a battle.
Those who think they can equip 8 skills and not have the ability to res are just fooling themselves and being selfish. It's all about the team!

Actually, I think his problem is the inherent difference between explorable area quests and mission quests.

Explorable area quests have rez portals where you end up after you die in battle.

Mission quests have no such entity. The only way to rez in a mission is by another party member or hench.

The mission ends when all party members are killed.

Unfortunately sometimes a rez-less henchy will be the only one left, and run an AI script ad-infinitum, so the dead wait and wait and wait.

If this happens the only way out is to abort the mission by logging out or using the map.