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I'm not sure I follow you completely.
Bedrooms are either "private" or dorms, and private ones can either be left free for any dwarf to claim or be assigned manually. If you want them to share the beds I think you need to make it a dorm (although the wiki warns about freeloaders hogging hospital beds). In addition to this, beds are frequently found in barracks and jails, but I have no idea what happens to undesignated beds (e.g. building a bed in the mess, but not making it into a room. Beds built in a dorm [but not designated as rooms] were slept in as intended when I last built one).

According to my understanding, your description should lead to 12 dorfs claiming these beds, which would cause those dwarves, but no other, to sleep in these beds (apart from any spouses). That should be visible by looking at the bed/room description (or in the rooms list).

Delirious, I think...

Semi molten rock seems to obliterate anything that falls on top of it (at least when falling through magma; I haven't experimented with any falls through air), but there is a method (described on the wiki) to obsidianize the magma flow layer that always lies on top of it (if SMR isn't in direct contact with rock already). Also, SMR can be dug through from below under certain constraints, but that is not very useful in itself, though.

Up/Down staircases (and presumably down only as well) "leak" diagonally downwards, i.e. a creature one tile below to the side (both directly above/to the side and NW, NE, SW, SE) can path into such staircases. Thus, if you leave the staircases built when dealing with magma flows in place there is a path into (and out of) the sea on the magma side below the staircase (unless the magma flow was perfectly flat, in which case there are no tiles available below). I think that removing the staircase will still leave a hole if the staircase is removed after obsidianization of the magma flow tile, because the tile below becomes roofless (only explanation I have to why I got invaded by fire imps), so these tiles need to be tiled over with a floor or wall to plug the security breach (I assume an up only staircase will do as well).

The above is one possible explanation, but it might not be the only one.

One possibility is that the spam comes from attempts to get stuff from the cavern, but something stopping them. Burrows tend to generate huge amounts of spam, but there are some other reasons (poorly understood by me, at least) for it as well.

I'd try to forbid everything in the cavern with 'd' 'b' 'f' and then block select from below the lowest to above the highest cavern level. This should forbid all items in that region (you may have to manually unforbid any cage traps caught in the process). You can unforbid the items either as a region command or on an item per item basis if you want to get at them later.

I'd also try to close off cavern access completely with closed drawbridges (you should build those anyway, for protection) to see if the spam stops.

Well, I DO have trade access to steel and pig iron (humans and elves rarely survive in my pocket universes), but I intentionally embarked in a metal free area in a metal scarce universe, and I've decided to use only goblinite (and adamantine), with the exception that i buy crap metal (like gold) from caravans to satisfy strange moods and any special noble demands [the bronze bed for the mausoleum requirement in my previous fortress was unfair, in my view]. The goblins bring copper and silver, while the undead brought bronze (long time since they showed up last, though), and sadly, no kobolds. And I've actually gotten hold of a huge amount of adamantine (>1500 wafers), but then I've already reached retirement time (don't think there is anything of interest left to do: the goblins do not seem to advance in their sieges, just the same donation expedition once or twice a year. The caverns are gummed up by excessive tree growth and camping critters. The clowns have stopped rushing to their death [well, there is a bunch camping in my clown connection tunnels]. I think I may have used up all titans, and it was a long time since I saw any FBs [I did have 5 at the same time once, though]).

I've never explored magma pistons, but have minecart and impulse ramp experience (100+ level roundtrip tracks in two different fortresses, plus a rail gun that never saw use in a previous fortress), as well as magma and water pump stacks.

@Niddhoger (any relation to the snake?):
I know of magma safe materials, but the problem is that the only way to move magma to an overland trap with a reasonable amount of effort is to carry the magma in a mine cart, and you cannot make one out of glass or stone. My attempts to use nether-cap mine carts have failed as well, since pushing a cart through magma to scope some up apparently is considered to be "throwing into magma", causing the cart to vanish immediately without a trace, and a loading station where magma is pumped onto the square containing the cart [works fine to load water into carts] causes it to be severely damaged at the least.

Stress is a value that I think is just pushed up and down by events, so I think this particular dwarf is on her way down to normality from a rather high level. If you're using DFHack you can see the stress level value from the enhanced unit screen.

If someone is particularly sensitive, I'd remove them from refuse hauling, at least during siege cleanups. I generally don't care that some of them freak out during corpse hauling, as long as the overall stress level for the dwarf isn't too high.

I can think of two ways to reduce corpse hauling stress overall:
1. Use cage traps, strip the captives, and then pit them into magma (or even just a very deep hole). Some will try to escape while being pitted, so you should have your militia stationed to kill them (which results in corpse hauling, but still fewer corpses than if you just butcher the attackers).
2. Clean out the attacker tunnel with magma to burn away the corpses. That has the negative side effect of depriving your desperate dwarves of their hotly desired loincloths, and will also destroy non iron goblinite, I believe.