A level 60 character takes weeks to get. If you lose it because the healer DCs during an UBRS run or some hunter pet pulls an extra pack, it would be great if we could transfer it to Mankrik or something.
Obviously you couldn’t transfer the other way though.
Nobody knows how the official Blizz HC servers are going to be like.
Otherwise, if you’re on BB, RN, you’re free to pay for a transfer, though IDK if Mankrik is accepting transfers ('cause IK Blizz will block transfers to crowded servers, at times), or if the free transfer still exists.
If not there, plenty of other servers to go to especially in that same cluster.
You just can’t transfer to a PvP server from BB, since BB is technically a “PvE” server despite its “RP” title. I couldn’t transfer to Grobb nor DD even if I wanted to 'cause those are both RP-PvP servers.
BB is one of a kind, as it’s the ONLY Normal RP server on Classic.
Transfers to Mankrik are available and free at this time.
please god no, it would defeat the whole purpose
If your purpose is to reach 60 and you’ve accomplished that, why not? So we just leave the character there to do what?
That’s if that’s your purpose. I can’t speak for everyone, but I would assume I’m (edit) not (haha) alone in that the “purpose” is a server on which where your character has one life, which in turn makes the gameplay and dynamics specific.
If you can transfer a dead character, it doesn’t mean one life no more, and the gameplay and dynamics are comprimised by the diminished risk-factor.
Exactly how I feel about Seasonal server characters being transferred onto perma servers. So much for “seasonal” characters.
Dead characters under 60 that die start over. But if I get to 60 and would rather retire on my RP server I think I should be able to.
Sure it does.
You still only get one life on the hc server and once dead you never see that character again on the hc server.
Those bits go to the afterlife, a mystical unknown place.
I’ve no problem with people asking for this.
Best of luck, OP, and hope Blizz listens.
When you die at level 60, a popup appears asking you if you wish to transfer to [list of available servers]. Either way, you are no longer on that HC server.
Theres no problem transferring off a dead character from a hc realm to an Era one. You lose the “prestige” but dont lose the time invested at least.
you don’t belong in HC 
no offense, but this is true
if you are not willing to part with a lvl 60, you should stick to softcore era realms.
there’s a lot wrong with it. namely, it’s not hardcore. your dead character is dead.
It would also detract from the risk factor, making HC less interesting, imo.
Its lost its hardcore status and you have to transfer it off the realm. Aint nothing wrong with that, lets not reinvent the wheel here, theres a long history of hardcore games, such as osrs hc iron man for example, that once you lose hc status thats it.
You lose status, you have to either be a ghost forever or get off the realm. Yall make things way harder than they need to be sometimes, i say as i lvl in hardcore as unarmed…
That’s exactly why HC isn’t gonna be what ppl think it will be
I disagree. When hardcore was just an add on we all played as if it was true HC and when you died you stopped playing that character, but you never actually lost the character and the game was never any less fun. Now that HC servers are official we still play using that one life, except that if you lose a character it’s gone for good and THAT stops being as fun.
Losing a characters single life prestige and ceasing to play it after is different than deleting weeks worth of your life on a truly HC realm after your character dies. The ability to transfer your dead HC character off the HC realm affects the game play on the hardcore realm almost zero, but what it DOES DO is alleviate the soul crushing depletion of a million players that lost there characters and are otherwise interested in playing HC.
It’s a video game.
But yeah, it doesn’t matter what the point is, we are able to transfer dead HC characters to non-HC realms. That’s just how it works.
We are in fact also able to transfer non-dead HC characters off HC realms 
That’s actually quite noteworthy!