Really, it's starting to scare me now.
One of my dwarves, who I got in an immigrant wave, was a soapmaker.
As such, I deemed him unfit to live, (AKA I had 14 soapmakers already) and so sent on his way to the drowning pit of death, which is bassicly a 7 story high, 1 tile wide room with a floodgate at the top, linking it to the river. I ordered one of my dwarves to pull the lever, and looked at the new renivations to our cemetary. About 5 minutes later I checked back on our pal, Soapy McUseless, and what do you know? he is still alive, but with a DROWNING tab next to his status. I guess its a bug, so I recruit him as a meatsheild and forget about it.
About a month later (game time) Soapy McUseless and his squad of other meatsheilds get ambushed on their patrol route, and his squad is brutally massacred by goblins. By the time I get my swordsdwarves over there and drive away the goblins, I find Ol'Soapy with one of his arms lopped off, one leg mangled, the other lopped off, and most of his body parts yellow or red (including his head). As he feebly crawls back to the fortress, blood seeping behind him, I shrug, and continue on with my fortifacations to my main gate.
Now, as he crawls back and forth in my hallways it is starting to get a little annoying considering I expected him to die ALMOST A YEAR AGO! Also, to make things worse some of my peasants continually follow him around and spam errors. Is some sort of bug? because I am sort of confused.