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The Carpet-Rolled Corpse description addresses this question explicitly, starting with the first sentence (emphasis added): "A classic method for murderers, kidnappers, or smugglers to covertly transport a human body, dead or alive, is to lay it out on a carpet and roll it up inside." It goes on to discuss the use for both corpses and live victims in more detail.
The name isn't great, but the trope description says several times the body in the carpet can be dead or alive.
edit: Ninja'd.
Edited by HeraldAlberich
Maybe the title should be different?
Bound and Gagged lists Carpet-Rolled Corpse and then goes to say "if the body isn't dead". Problem is, don't we have a proper trope for "carpet-rolled living body"? Or does that trope count that occasion too?