Equipment after you die

Did this get changed?

I died with anhk. I had a cursed mail equiped. I picked another non cursed armor to use after I popped anhk. Unless I'm wrong this gave you a sneaky way to unequip cursed armor. However when I picked up my backpack and opened the inventory, I had the cursed armor back on. I'm not sure if it ever unequiped it or not as I didn't run into any mobs while getting pack.