Originally Posted by
MadAmster
Your English teacher must have bee really poor. Here is the meaning of deceased and "cause of death" is, surprise, surprise, nowhere to be found :
deceased
dɪˈsiːst/Submit
LAWformal
noun
noun: deceased
1.
the recently dead person in question.
"the judge inferred that the deceased was confused as to the extent of his assets"
adjective
adjective: deceased
1.
recently dead.
"the deceased man's family"
synonyms: dead, expired, departed, gone, no more, passed on, passed away; late, lost, lamented; perished, fallen, slain, slaughtered, killed, murdered; lifeless, not breathing, having breathed one's last, defunct, extinct, inanimate, insentient, insensate, inert; informal(as) dead as a doornail, six feet under, pushing up daisies, under the sod; euphemistic with God, asleep, at peace; rare demised, exanimate
"they removed the body of the deceased ambassador"
decease
dɪˈsiːs/Submit
verbarchaic
past tense: deceased; past participle: deceased
die.
"he deceased at his palace of Croydon"
Origin
Middle English: from Old French deces, from Latin decessus ‘death’, past participle (used as a noun) of decedere ‘to die’.