In an interview with Brad himself it's stated that the corpse recovery timer was originally 24 hour and "later" extended (maybe drop of Velious?) in the link,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45XrbsBt34c
at 4:30 min to 6 min this issue was discussed at great length. If this server pushes for classic, why not make the rot timers correct for player deaths?