See linked policy: Deceased authors
Managing Editors need to make the following changes:
If you are the Primary Group for the deceased author, please replace the email address with deceased-contributor-XXXXXX@example.com (where XXXXXX is a random string). You can use https://www.random.org/strings/ to generate a random string to ensure the placeholder address is unique. Delete all other contact details, apart from city and country from the Archie record. When the contact details have been amended, please make the deceased author's person record Inactive. To do this, open the author's Properties sheet in Archie, click on the Info tab, untick the box next to Active. In the Specification field, insert 'Deceased'. Note that when all the person’s entity Roles have been made Inactive, the full Person record will automatically be set to Inactive.