Hardcore etiquette?

[Elric of Grans]

I recently started playing Hardcore, teamed with another Aussie. As we did the Hall of Agony tonight we had out first loss. We ran into some Elite Berserkers and were both Vortexed in. I popped Smoke Screen and got back, but he (Monk) panicked, hit the wrong button and used Cyclone Strike, draining his Spirit and making sure he was trapped between them and some white mobs. He died almost immediately after.

I was not sure what the correct etiquette was here. He created a new Monk in a new game, so I joined, gave him the items that I had picked up in that last dungeon level (for later), then helped him quickly kill through old content, passing any blues that dropped there. Was this what is `done' in the hardcore community?

Is there any other common etiquette in the community I should know?