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[Nicolai]

So, this stupid dwarf decided to not drink, and so he died in my dinning hall.
The corpse has started to rot now, how do i get rid of it?

[bcd1024]

Make coffins, build them, and designate for burial. Idle dwarves will haul the body to the coffin.

[FleshForge]

In the shorter term, graveyard stockpiles work too, but yeah coffins are preferrable.

[Lord Darkstar]

Nicolai, you can get the body dragged off to a stock(p)ile "grave(y)ard". Graveyards are just "refuse" stockpiles for pets and dwarves. It isn't a proper burial in a coffin, but your dwarves will drag any dead pet or dwarf to the graveyard. Best to put it outside, due to rotting.

To use coffins, you need to make them first (out of wood in Carpenter's workshop or out of stone in a Mason's workshop). Once the coffin is built, you build it just like a door or table or chair. Then you (q)uery it to enable it for use to bury dwarves. You can also set them to allow pets. You can also assign a built coffin to be a particular dwarf's personal tomb (and you can create a tomb room from them, IIRC).

Fast answer: make the graveyard. Long term: build a catacombs filled with coffins.

[Moonshine Fox]

For fancier dwarves, you can also make coffins out of any metal and even glass.

[Antary]

I think that this question is related.
So after a few goblin ambushes, my traps are full of corpses. Nobody seems to remove them. I have 10 idlers and nobody bothers.

[FleshForge]

Are the traps forbidden?  I'm not sure but I believe only mechanics handle the trap cleaning job, do you have your idlers set to do mechanic labor?

[xellas84]

Corpses fall under refuse, so if your traps are outside you have to turn on the Gather Outside Refuse option

(o)rders, (r)efuse, gather (o)utside refuse.

This should get your dorfs moving to grab those corpses (as well as every other corpse on the map).