playertouchsme problem

[Understood]

I'm working on an event where basically you're falling down a shaft and you have to dodge these spikes that randomly place themselves while you fall...However, I used onPlayerTouchsme() without knowing the player had to be facing the object z.z

The player needs to die when touching the spike, regardless of their direction! Is there anything I can do to get around this?

PHP Code:

function onPlayerTouchsme()
{
  if (player.y < (this.y - 1.5))
  {
    this.killPlayer();
  }
}