Steps to Reproduce:
Have stuff in your inventory
Equip items in at least one of the following slots: main hand, off hand, armor
Find or place blocks in a low ceiling configuration
Get into a swimming or crawling state
Enter the small space underneath those blocks, making sure you can't stand
Die in any way
Observed Results:
Your experience, as well as all items that are equipped on the main hand, off hand and armor slots are dropped on top of the platform, while everything else is dropped under the platform
Expected Results:
Everything drops under the platform, which is the actual location of the death.
Screenshots/Videos attached: Yes
Notes: In a regular survival setting, this can easily happen when drowning in narrow flooded caves, which can make it significantly harder to locate important items that may get stuck in some random cave between the death spot and the surface.
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Based on the resolution of MCPE-169132 and other similar reports, this is most likely a dupe of MCPE-121025. Most notably, it can cause your items to appear atop the nether roof MCPE-188066
Those resolutions don't seem right to me, it's a completely unrelated issue. The only similarity is death. This one can be reproduced consistently in any environment.

This issue along with MCPE-121025 should definitely be a higher priority because of how much they affect gameplay. No one wants to permanently lose all their stuff because the game wont let them pick it back up or the game does not place it in the correct location.