Orpheus suffers a lot of deaths. Not as many as Dionysos by a long shot, but it’s still a lot. I discussed some of the more important deaths here, but I just came across one I’d never read about before and it’s hugely significant. 

Marci Valerii Martialis, De Spectaculis Liber 21a
quidquid in Orpheo Rhodope spectasse theatro dicitur, exhibuit, Caesar, harena tibi. repserunt scopuli mirandaque silva cucurrit, quale fuisse nemus creditur Hesperidum. affuit immixtum pecori genus omne ferarum et supra vatem multa pependit avis, ipse sed ingrato iacuit laceratus ab urso. haec tantum, haec res est facta ita, ficta prior.

Martial, On the Spectacles 21a
Everything which is said to have been seen on the stage of Orpheus in Thrace, the scene is presented to you, oh Caesar: Rocks crawled, a wonderful forest ran, such as the forest of the Hesperides is thought to have been. Every race of wild beasts were present, intermingled with the domestic, and many a bird was suspended above the poet, but he himself lie dead, torn to pieces by a disagreeable bear. Only this event is fabricated in such a way, from how it was originally composed.

Ibid 21b:
Orphea quod subito tellus emisit hiatu, versa miramur? — venit ab Eurydice.

Somehow the earth suddenly opened and sent forth a bear, crushing Orpheus; it came from Eurydice.