Another case of the 10-hp "flying death" claiming an under-prepared player who thinks that they should be able to survive running into any biome, haphazardly, especially the (currently) "endgame" biome of the game, without paying heed to the very simple principles of making sure they are fully fed (max hp and stamina), properly geared up, properly rested (hp / stamina regen bonus), and AWARE of their surroundings at ALL times... and then coming to forums to announce ragequit until the devs "fix" it.

Sorry OP but you failed to prepare for exploraton... That's bad enough, but then you went about trying to do deathrun(s) to claim your corpse ALSO while being under-prepared, and now asking the devs to change the game simply because you haven't played it right.

The death statue is persistent, meaning it doesn't go away, so you have all the time in the world to PREPARE, before trying to go get your stuff back.... IF you couldn't survive while wearing gear, why assume you can run back WITHOUT gear and end up with a better outcome?

Get geared up, fed, rested and SLEEP before trying to go get the corpse...
Often times, sleeping through the night, will give the grave-campers time to reset and move on to other things, allowing you a better chance to get your stuff.

As mentioned by other people.... you can kill the deathsquito, in ONE hit with ANY weapon, so just kill it and then pick up your stuff.