It would save me from deletion many times, and would make gameplay much more enjoyable.

I remember when I've deleted my paladin after 40 hours of praying and found afterwards that Imm was looking for me and our playing time didn't match at all (at that time I think there were no offline empowerments, or this particular imm didn't do it for RP reasons).

And I remember there were a big flame about one shaman (forgot his name) who deleted/reactivated because of the same time problem (afaik).