Officially on dev-Bukkit Death Messages Plus - Have it your way Version: 1.0 - Built and tested on 1.4.5-R1.0 and 1.4.5-R2.0 This allows you to edit your server death messages. You can use colors, magic characters, underlines, bold, and italic. It uses variables so you can place your name, your display name, your world, or the killer. It's super customizable. Features: You can use all Bukkit colors, magic characters, bold and italics. This works with variables(IE: %player% Is the players name.). Supported: Players Name, There display name, the world they died in and there killer(Only works with PVP and Mobs right now.) Works with all Minecraft Supported death messages. Check them all out here. Download link: http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/dmp/ Changelog: Version 1.0 Release
I suggest getting a dropbox, and using that. There are more then a few death message plugins right now. However this does seem more customizable.
Thanks many more updates coming soon. We plan on adding a spleef so if some one spleefs you, and you fall out of the world it will know.