ENH: explore better way of freeing item memory

[EmosewaMC]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

#1567

Describe the solution you'd like

Find some other way of managing item memory that does not involved a delete this as shown here this has caused an error with a use after free.

Repository breaking implications

May leak memory if free is not implemented correctly

Describe alternatives you've considered

more use after free

Additional context

wyoming

[DarwinAnim8or]

Considering that the PR has already been merged, I'm closing this stale issue; feel free to reopen if this isn't the case

[jadebenn]

@DarwinAnim8or For documentation purposes, can you clarify which PR you mean?

[DarwinAnim8or]

@DarwinAnim8or For documentation purposes, can you clarify which PR you mean?

Apologies, I thought that this: 1567

Included a fix for this issue as well, apparently it does not.