maddawgtress wrote:
But no, you don't lose any items if you die as a thief... Hope this helps

My guildmate was a hunter today, and his monkey picked up a GDF ... so a thief must have dropped it.
(And the in-game help says that you can drop items when dieing except during cape-PvP.)
What a thief does loose is the time taken to rez in town and then ride back to where he was trying to thieve. If he already had some loot in an horse/camel then this might have been stolen by someone else before he gets back too.