Deceased Patient Archiving/Assinging

How to deal with deceased patients? I dont want to put them as inactive as I dont want to be able to put them on a list that will allow me to send them reactivation by accident – it could cause bad will between our clinic and the family.
Perhaps a good option would be a to have deceased as an option under status in the patient record (active/inactive/deceased)
Is this possible for the next build or is there a better way round?