From Dota 2 wiki:

When a hero dies to enemy creeps or an enemy tower and has not been damaged by any enemy heroes in the last 20 seconds (regardless of distance between heroes), the kill gold is split among all enemy heroes.

Absolutely the correct play. That early in the game, the death gold bounty is about 150-200 gold, divided across all enemies if there’s no enemy hero who last hit. That’s approximately a creep’s worth of gold or less, which is negligible.

By suiciding, you come back with full resources, you don’t play scared because you’re low on hp/mana, you don’t waste regen items needlessly, and you don’t flirt with dying and easily giving your enemy gold and exp.

This is very helpful, thank you!