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Unnamed dwarf corpses claim coffins but won't become ghosts, so there's no problem with smashing their corpses. However, they'll still claim coffins.

Since merchant guards can become ghosts and can't be slabbed, you'll still need some coffins for them. I don't think(?) you can assign a tomb after the intended assignee is already dead, so in order to avoid having a tremendous backlog of Dwarf Peasants, you should probably just try to keep up with their coffin requirements.

[slothen]

make sure to forbid corpses, that'll save some headaches as a forbidden corpse won't be assigned a coffin.

[fortydayweekend]

It has occurred to me though, that just what you said is true. What works fine in a game without necros, is just a huge security problem in a game WITH necros. Not to mention my tomb area. If a necro got that far down the main shaft and to the coffins, I'd be equally in trouble LOL. I'll have to rethink that arrangement in games where I have a fort near a necro tower, clearly.

I usually channel a single tile near the refuse pile straight down for a few z-levels, then dig out a small room, and then wall it off. A garbage zone next to the hole means dwarves can regularly dump the entire refuse pile into a necro-proof pit. Later on I extend the hole down to the magma sea.

Obviously you don't want to lose shells, hair and bone but they don't generate miasma so can be hidden away deep in the fortress.

Vermin remains can also be tricky with the dwarves either collecting every single one on the surface, or not dumping the ones out of the surface refuse pile. So I have an indoor vermin remain refuse pile underground next to the hole, with another garbage zone next to it.

[§k]

make sure to forbid corpses, that'll save some headaches as a forbidden corpse won't be assigned a coffin.

They still claim coffins.