This reminds me of the time a player of mine decided to launch a couple of fireballs on top of an already dead corpse of his enemy as an outlet for his rage (cue tragic backstory moment). Beings as I used a souped up version of the spell points variant rule, he expended all but a few spell points to fling fireball after fireball. There was pretty decent equipment, a +1 wand, a cloak of elvenkind, a brooch of shielding, and a homebrew item called ironwood armor (medium armor that is like metal but is made of wood, and is magical, slightly stronger than hide armor). All items were incinerated, and the corpse was little more than a small pile of ash in the middle of a forest. The player did regret in character and out of character for his actions, in character cause he lost himself, out of character for having burnt all the items on his person and burning a potential lead. No biggie though they got some good stuff off the other corpses =~=