Do corpses expire with items on them? Meaning that you can never get the items back?

[Fenrisulfr]

I'm sure this has already been asked, but I'm on forum runner on my iPhone and can't find a thread about it.

I logged on my Druid to play him for the first time in a year and I found out my character had died and never retrieved his corpse. Anything that I can do to get my corpse and items or are they gone for good? :/