My character, level 50 Orc Ranger with str 12 (stop laughing) was standing on a huge pile of his equipment.
I forgot to take and equip my girdle of carrying and orb of elemental fire, and instead pressed "pick up items primitively" ;
and then Y (pick up everything without prompting)
After pressing enter for some time, my character suddently died of overburden.

I think there should be some kind of prompt (where default action will be to NOT die); character should not be able to pick up item if it will lead to his death.

I had all kind of regular stuff, most of it very light, but also a pile of 200k gold (weighting 2000+s). I don't remember what item was the last before I died.