This gave me a little chuckle, but Gale died on me and got thrown into a pit down to the Underdark.
It seems that his corpse somehow got teleported to camp for resurrection purposes sake, and there his corpse was basically in his "normal position", just dead. The only problem with this was that he killed poor Shadowheart with his aura, as she was waiting back at camp.
I don't expect a dead Gale randomly killing my camp companions, so please move his corpse spawn point a safe distance away from all other companions that might be waiting in camp.