Can you make it so, that we respawn as an PC after being digested for a full gameplay loop?
Maybe you could implement 2 items that spawn random somewhere on the map: One lets us survive a grab/a belly-tour once, the other one is split into a few parts and when collected all of them, let that PC teleport away for the "good ending" of that PC.
Now that would be satisfiyng loop/game as a whole for a nice round after work!