Body despawn time

[Zer0HD2 (DayZ) 40]

So right now I have a problem with the way player bodies despawn. Last night I got into a firefight with a squad of 4. Me and a friend had travelled down to Elektro to help another friend (who was a fresh spawn) gear up, when some guy fired a mosin at us from the school. We immediately went to our usual firefight tactics (get to hard cover, locate enemies, suppress and wide flank), and wiped out the guy on the roof and 3 of his friends. However, while we were making sure there weren't any more, three of the bodies had already disappeared, and by the time we got our friend to the fourth one, that disappeared too right as he was about to loot it.

 

Wouldn't it be better to only despawn bodies if there are no players within a certain radius of it or something similar? (could cause issues in places like Elektro where there's pretty much always somebody close).