How to make the character not part of the player?

I have tried to make a game where when your player dies and if that player leaves the game the player's character will still be there in ragdoll. I got the ragdoll, I just need a way to separate the player from the character so they are no longer attached.

I have tried 2 ways: Setting players character to nil setting players character to a different cloned character

but both of these ways result in the player's character getting destroyed

Note: It's only supposed to detach the character on death

thank you