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				A normal player corpse can be resurrected only within the first 3 hours after death. This timer only ticks if the player (or any player on account?) is online.
			
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I do not remember it being like this in classic.
I can recall letting my corpse sit at zone lines (as long as it had an item left on it) and going about my business grouping or whatever while I waited for a cleric to show up sometimes hours or even a day later.
I do not recall any urgency regarding res timers.  People would leave low value items on the corpse just in case they never got a res and it did rot.