This was good gents, though even testing for around 2 hours non-stop I couldn't quite get enough proof that the bodies of players would not disappear under 'certain circumstances' -> needs more testing.
But so far I could easily run 600-700m back to my body and could find it with all the gear still in place, this wasn't the case before :)

Would you happen to have any idea if what you suggested could still be paired with a timer/make it timed so that after n amount of time the bodies of players would get removed?
Just thinking that at least in a server with many players and using this could lead to cluttering the server with all the bodies not being removed from time to time.