MC-6949Slept in bed, woke up inside of wall, respawned at original spawn point
Shortly after updating to the 1.4.7 release, I created a new bed (I've been out exploring, far from home). Went to sleep, woke up blind & rapidly loosing health. Couldn't figure out what was going on until my death message told me that I had suffocated inside a wall. (The bed was placed in a corner, with cobblestone wall behind it, and to one side. The other side of the bed, & the foot, were open space.
I didn't re-spawn at that bed, nor at the previous one I had slept in (the previous stop on my exploration journey), but all the way back at my original spawn point – so I have no hope of getting back to reclaim my stuff within five minutes of game time. Too far away 
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Windows 7 Home. Single Player, Vanilla client.
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Slept in bed, woke up inside of wall, respawned at original spawn point
Shortly after updating to the 1.4.7 release, I created a new bed (I've been out exploring, far from home). Went to sleep, woke up blind & rapidly loosing health. Couldn't figure out what was going on until my death message told me that I had suffocated inside a wall. (The bed was placed in a corner, with cobblestone wall behind it, and to one side. The other side of the bed, & the foot, were open space.
I didn't re-spawn at that bed, nor at the previous one I had slept in (the previous stop on my exploration journey), but all the way back at my original spawn point – so I have no hope of getting back to reclaim my stuff within five minutes of game time. Too far away
Environment
Windows 7 Home. Single Player, Vanilla client.
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MC-9529.Linda, in case you ever read this thread again:
All chunks farther away than 160 blocks (the normal 1-chunks sight range unless modding or editing the game files) get unloaded. You actually have 5 minutes to go get your stuff back counting only the seconds while a chunk is actually loaded.
So the truth is, if you die far from your respawning point (from a bed or the original spawn point), and the chunk is usually "out of the way" of other players (on a server), and no special mob forces that chunk to stay active, then it will probably get unloaded immediately after your death because no players are near it. In that case, the truth of the thing is that you actually have all the time in the world to prepare yourself and THEN go get your stuff back.
If you think that the stuff is very valuable, is plainly visible instead of hidden at the bottom of a big ocean or deeply nested in a dark forgotten corner of a giant undeground maze, and you know it's general position, but you're just not sure exactly where, and you don't mind "cheating a little bit" in order to get it back, then you can determine in which "region" you were when you died by guessing the "multiple of 512" of the coordinates (useful website for this: http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/coordinates/) and then keeping a backup copy of the appropriate region files (normally located in the C:\Users\<PutYourUsernameHere>\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves\<PutYourWorldNameHere>\region\ folder) so that you actually can get several "tries" at this.
Note that the 5-minutes counter pauses if the game is paused, but does NOT pause while the game displays the "you died" red screen.