Speaking from experience, when you die and reincarnate you aren't in a village anymore if you joined one. Usually easily fixed.
But what if you're the lawspeaker and there's no chieftain appointed? You'd be unable to join the village again. What if you house is on village property? What if you died on village land and can't get the keys to your wall because you're being blocked by the village or the person that killed you?
There is not a person that I know of in my village that has the lawspeaker skill.
Is there something that can be done to solve this? I would like to rejoin my village and continue the life I made for myself.