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[GoblinCookie]

Since my fortress was created 3 dwarves have died.  One went beserk and had to be strangled, one got swept away in a flood and the third was killed by a wereelephant.

I made a stone coffin and placed it down but the coffin is automatically assigned to the fisherdwarf that got swept away in a floor despite the fact her body is inaccessable and I have already built a memorial.  I have tried it twice but it keeps getting assigned to the fisherdwarf rather than the one that the wereelephant killed.  The body I want to bury is in a refuge stockpile and starting to rot. 

I thought that forbidding the body would sort things out.  It seems that it does not so I have a problem.  I have removed and place the coffin twice now.  Is there some fix for this?

It seems that coffins are assigned in order of death or such like.  Would it work to place an empty coffin, make another one, bury the body and then delete the coffin for the body that is inaccesable in order to reuse it?

[smeeprocket]

could forbid the body.

[GoblinCookie]

could forbid the body.

Did that already.

[Absentia]

As far as I know, coffins are always assigned in death order and there's no way to avoid empty coffins for inaccessible bodies. But given that it's easy enough to build extra coffins, I've never really considered it a problem.

[smeeprocket]

well you could make a tomb out of the coffin for the fisherdwarf. That doesn't solve the spam from the other body tho.

[GoblinCookie]

As far as I know, coffins are always assigned in death order and there's no way to avoid empty coffins for inaccessible bodies. But given that it's easy enough to build extra coffins, I've never really considered it a problem.

You do still have to build memorials for the unburied bodies?  It is not a problem to create another coffin, it is just that the empty coffin essentially is a memorial so having to have a memorial as well is kinda silly.

The question I am asking is this.  Were I to create a third coffin, bury my dwarf in it and then remove the second empty coffin to reuse later would the fourth coffin I lay down end up being assigned to the fisherdwarf or the new dwarf?

[Absentia]

I expect it would still try to assign it to the missing dwarf, unless you designated it as a tomb for the dwarf you actually want to bury.

I do know that deconstructing memorials can/will result in a Murderous Ghost, although I'm not sure if that applies to empty coffins when a slab is already placed. I wouldn't test that one without backing up my save first.

[GoblinCookie]

I expect it would still try to assign it to the missing dwarf, unless you designated it as a tomb for the dwarf you actually want to bury.

I do know that deconstructing memorials can/will result in a Murderous Ghost, although I'm not sure if that applies to empty coffins when a slab is already placed. I wouldn't test that one without backing up my save first.

Yes because it goes for the earliest unburied citizen corpse that is not already buried.  It would rather seem then we essentially need both a coffin AND a memorial for those whose bodies are lost while only a coffin for everyone else.

I do not see why things had to work this way.  Why do we not just assign corpses to coffins?

[smeeprocket]

it's weird because I've never had this problem. What is the cancellation announcement, incidentally?

[Absentia]

It's listed on the Wiki as a bug. Might be on the bug tracker too. I assume it's one of those things that isn't really intended behavior but also isn't significant enough to be a priority fix.