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[Brhino]

I opened up and cleared out the the glowing pits.  The previously trapped humanoids wandered around until they died of dehydration.  Partially to avoid rotting corpses miasmaing up the place, and partially so the skulls of these poor souls would not be placed in my skull pile (I'm stockpiling the skull of every sentient thing my dwarves have killed in defense of the fortress), I had their bodies thrown in the lava.  The problem is, I have discovered that the dwarves of the underworld each got a coffin reserved for them, even though there's nothing left.  Removing the coffins does no good - when I replace them they're immediately designated for another of the dwarves.  Is there anything I can do besides leaving an empty coffin for each dwarf that came out of the pits?

[Jim Groovester]

Dwarves bury their own, even if they come from the terrifying glowing hells. Sadly, there's nothing you can do about it.

The same thing happens with dwarves who attack your fortress with goblins. They get buried, too. Once a dwarf, always a dwarf.

[AlienChickenPie]

Have them buried in an area that you will later flood with magma.

[Rowanas]

This could explain why i'm having a dwarf cage problem. An invading dwarf (goblinised) can't be put in any other cage, and I can't remove his cage.

[Skorpion]

Of course, the solution to the 'invading dwarf in cage' problem is a five-letter word with two Ms in it.

But yes, dwarves will toss dwarves in coffins, no matter where they're from. I'm unsure if that's a quirk of the programming due to there being no way of excluding non-residents, or an intentional move to show that a dwarf is still a dwarf, even if he turns up holding a pike and leading a goblin siege.