The illustrious Mr. Sebeok has made the following changes to corpses decaying:
1. Normal, run-of-the-mill PC corpses will decay to the pit in less time - probably a few ticks before you unghost. No more dying to the assbag who sees you naked at the pit while you wait for your stuff.
2. PC corpses in noexit rooms will decay in half the time (since usually these are the ones you can't just run back and get your stuff from).
Area explore PC corpses remain as they were before.