Quote Originally Posted by Ramspudnik View Post
There are plenty different meanings of deceased like cause of death.
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’.