None of those things are necessarily inherent to Dark Sun though. You can run an extremely deadly FR campaign or play Dark Sun more tame. It's more an issue of DM expectations than anything inherent to the setting.
It is inherent to the Dark Sun setting, though. Tame Dark Sun isn’t Dark Sun anymore, and in fact defeats the purpose of the setting. The original set recommended every player start with three characters, because the fatality rate was so high. And this was in an edition where character death was already common and expected.
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It is inherent to the Dark Sun setting, though. Tame Dark Sun isn’t Dark Sun anymore, and in fact defeats the purpose of the setting. The original set recommended every player start with three characters, because the fatality rate was so high. And this was in an edition where character death was already common and expected.