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[CapnUrist]

The answer is magma.

The long answer is a pump stack and elaborate sewet system with floors made of grates, all linked to individual levers to allow the opening of any space and drop the undesirable into Armok's lifeblood, cleansing the fortress and returning it to purity.

Then toss the corpses into the magma as well. Cause y'know, efficient disposal and all that.

[Broseph Stalin]

Mass grave. Have a hole covered by a lever operated hatch and designate that hatch as a dump. Whenever you have sentient corpses in your refuse pile have them dumped onto the hatch and then pull the lever. Like dealing with zombies except less time sensitive.

[greycat]

Whenever you have sentient corpses in your refuse pile

In my what?  (And the fact that I would have to look at each corpse to decide whether it's sentient or not is just another reason for me not to bother -- since I have to manually dump the corpses anyway, what's the point of having dwarves haul them twice?  Might as well just dump them straight to oblivion in the first place.)

[Broseph Stalin]

In my what?  (And the fact that I would have to look at each corpse to decide whether it's sentient or not is just another reason for me not to bother -- since I have to manually dump the corpses anyway, what's the point of having dwarves haul them twice?  Might as well just dump them straight to oblivion in the first place.)

Sentient corpses cause problems in the sense that they panic your dwarves and having corpses laying around outside causes problems in the sense they may kick your ass with undead vengeance. Dumping everything results in less bones, teeth, wool, horn, meat etc and actually causes MORE work because you're now dumping everything instead of just the problem parts. Refuse pile in a secure area and whenever you have some down time go to stocks and dump any corpse or body part that has a name or the suffix Man. Not super labor intensive.

[Panando]

There are ways to automate the delivery of sentient corpses to magma/atomsmashers or containment. Now I admit it's easier with DFhack search function, but only a little.

Create your refuse stockpile.
Create a minecart route with a stop linked to that stockpile and a dump stop which dumps the contents someplace purifying. Initially the stop should be set to receive only garbage (things you don't want to process) and not bodies/body parts.

Now update the kind of refuse the minecart receives to selectively include sentient corpses. You'll probably only ever see half a dozen kinds of sentient beings, perhaps a dozen at most. You can predict goblins, otherwise whenever a new type arrives in numbers worth caring about just go to the minecart and update the types it receives to include that type. This is a bunch faster with DFhack search, but even without it hunting down say, 'goblin' and 'elf' in the list, is not arduous.