I see DEAD PEOPLEFollow

hehe, OK, now that I got your attention. Periodically I will see PC corpses in various areas, Usually after a group of PC get TKO by a group of NPCs. Up to now everytime I have died I get a Death shard, but in these cases these peoples bodies are there rotting. Is this another form of death? any thoughts?

They just haven't clicked revive. Most often these people are in a party already and they are waiting for their priest who has either revived and is already on the way back, or still still running the heck away from a beating they never imagined possible.

Sometimes they will be waiting for a random priest to come by and offer a revive. Being a priest, I usually offer my revival abilities when people are rotting. Revive can only be cast on people that are currently grouped. A good piece of general knowledge: you can group people while you are dead by typing /invite <theirname>. In this way you can group a priest and they can revive you.