Keep player's tools on death?

I want to save whatever tool I'm holding to StarterGear, so I respawn with them, but it doesn't seem to work. I have this in tool's script:

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	local player = players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(tool.Parent)
	local saveTool = tool:Clone()
	player.StarterGear:ClearAllChildren()
	saveTool.Parent = player.StarterGear
end)

Did pretty much the same script, but it's now activated right after I buy the tool and now it works.