Dungeons And Dragons Online: DDO News: Death by Spectre

In one of the new screenshots linked in a previous news post, you can see two spectres attacking a party of PCs. As it turns out, one of those was spawned by the death of a player. Xundau says:

Just to clarify, the current plan is to spawn an extra spectre whenever a player is killed by one, but leave the character's body on the ground. We wanted to capture the "undead spawn" element of D&D, but we thought it would be a little harsh to remove the character's corpse from the dungeon entirely.

He goes on to clarify that the dead players corpse will be completely recoverable should you clear out the area. You can see his post here.