Well, there's a little hop to backtrack to the last save room, so I was thrown off by it at first. If you just run to the left you can't get back, you have to hop like there's a little ledge there. Threw me off at first. But as far as a save after the ceiling of death... I had to do that stupid room so many times, I can only IMAGINE what it would've been like had I needed to fight Clown Copter every time.
Actually, in retrospect, I prefer having the little jump back to the previous save room. It amuses me to think that there would be someone playing who was a bit less enterprising than we are, and they wouldn't think about jumping. Torment is the name of the game, after all.