I know, I know, its just a comic book. But there's a point at which some ideas are just too stupid.
So the serum stops working when he's dead? Why? And if we accept that it does then why didn't it also stop working all those years that he was in suspended animation?
And, for that matter, its typically been stated that the serum is what kept him alive and preserved in the ice. If the serum is powerful enough to do that, why would it stop working when he died? Instead, wouldn't the serum be more likely to PRESERVE his corpse after death?
It just makes no sense even under "comic book logic."