Unfortunately you can't prevent the program terminating like this - as described in perlvar:

The routine indicated by $SIG{__DIE__} is called when a fatal exception is about to be thrown. The error message is passed as the first argument. When a __DIE__ hook routine returns, the exception processing continues as it would have in the absence of the hook, unless the hook routine itself exits via a "goto", a loop exit, or a die(). The "__DIE__" handler is explicitly disabled during the call, so that you can die from a "__DIE__" handler. Similarly for "__WARN__".
If you want to catch this *and* not actually die then you need to use eval as well: 
local $SIG{__DIE__} = \&foo;
                                                                      
+          
                                                                      
+          
eval
{
die "Aiieeee!";
};
                                                                      
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sub foo
{
   print "COpped die";
   
}

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In reply to Re: Catching DIE no matter what by gellyfish
in thread Catching DIE no matter what by kosun

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