I posted some pics from a few days ago where I saw an NPC, in Anvil I believe, attempting to sweep away her own body with a broom. I found it to be pretty amusing, but no one else seemed amused.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/282611/things-that-make-you-go-hmm#latest

Well killing an NPC with the blade of woe now only gives exp when it triggers arcane well. The townsfolk of Tamriel know this is a dangerous world. Dead bodies are of no concern; after all a dead man can't stab you in the back. Yes they may wear the same fashion of clothing because that is a popular style, who would be caught out in public in anything else.

Zos feel free to use my answer and/or alter it in anyway you see fit.Your welcome

I agree with the OP... of course, ZOS could take us back to the wonderful times when we didn't have bodies littering the streets in cities housing the sites of central government...

Whenever I see a NPC raking its dead body I do not know if I laugh or cry.

Wow wrote: »

Normally, the dead body NPC will be gone by the time the NPC respawn. However if the player who commit the murder, did not loot the body, the old body will stay exist there preserving the loot while the new one already respawned

i don't like this, hope they address it in the future it makes Rawl'kha a bit cleaner

Adding an option to destroy loot items right there would be nice.

Trying to farm for motifs, and all I care to loot are the soul gems and the potions, and the boss's body lies there glowing because I am not in the mood to pick up 4 pieces of white/green trash and then go bouncing around my own inventory getting rid of it, just to make the body stop glowing.

Baconlad wrote: »

Try being a WW....you will not be coming back asking for shorter despawn timers. If they do that I will ask for shorter time to consume a corpse, and 15 second longer WW transformation, also more time added for each consumed body. I find myself killing one mob out of a pack just to feed while the other mobs are beating on me. Immersion is being able to see a trail of corpses left over from your rampage, not kill 20mobs and turn around just to see them respawned and not dead

How many NPCs could be massacred is really not something I care, as long as the dead ones are not identical to the ones alive. ZOS have several ways to deal with this problem. Instead of spawning after removing the body, they could also respawn altered version of NPCs with changed clothes, hair style, race and name, but behaving according to same programme.

Is this a problem because you want to pretend that they didn't get murdered and then respawn? I already have to suspend my disbelief that there is STILL an over population of thunderbugs or whatever, even though I (and every player before me) has killed dozens of them. So many NPCs are murdered every day, and this world doesn't have any children in it, so how are there even any left if I start trying to pretend that they don't respawn?

How is an altered version of the NPC standing on the corpse of thier predecessor any better? Mindlessly standing there oblivious to the corpse at your feet is fine as long as it's not you?

I'm not trying to criticize, I'm just genuinely curious why people care if a basically immortal respawning NPC (maybe he has the same special respawn power we have) is standing on his own corpse. The line is drawn at the standing on thier own corpse, but not the respawning, or being murdered in broad daylight. As long as the corpse is gone before they return from the dead, then it's fine?

Wow wrote: »

Normally, the dead body NPC will be gone by the time the NPC respawn. However if the player who commit the murder, did not loot the body, the old body will stay exist there preserving the loot while the new one already respawned

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Which would mean you would lose the chance to loot faster or the NPCs would respawn slower. I would go with the former.

I actually think it's entertaining to see.