Does Perma Death make a game scarier?

[HorrorElementFilms]

I think that the idea could be used as a "difficulty" mode, where the player can choose whether or not "permadeath" is in effect. Sure it would be a bad PERMANENT feature, but an optional one could give players the best of both worlds.

But, I think that Frictional Games is so far into being done with AMFP, I wouldn't think they would change the way they usually script just for the option of making the game harder. Maybe somebody could mod it later or something, i dunno.