No pet health and no pet command bar is bullshit

[Izmael]

They totally did NOT summon corpses for you and certainly didn't restore rotten corpses.

That's why you avoided letting your corpse rot. Having a high level geared corpse rot did happen (rarely), and the gear was lost forever. I think usually it probably usually happened for some "external" reasons. For example, dad rage ripping power cord out and removing the PC from player's room.

Now that would be classic. I never understood why the corpses were restored on-demand, here.