I'm 99% sure
@EnolaGaia would want his account thus set.
He himself was the one that set up that status as a clever technical work around so that the member is clearly no longer logging in but is marked as present by the board software so they can be tagged, searched for and linked with their posts without the security risk of an 'open account' to be hacked—it's a win-win-win.
Prior to this, members were anonymised, and prior to that the accounts were deleted and their posts orphaned and separated.
There has been one earlier instance in which a deceased member's profile was altered to indicate that he had died, but in the name of consistency, we reversed this; it had also begun to look slightly mawkish in its incongruity.
Edit: 100%: I've just found a private post on this matter from him. He also mentions the GDPR requirements and the fact that a user's 'deceased status' arguably constitutes personally identifiable info that we—the staff— are bound to protect.