[WikiEN-l] Automatic death flagging?

[K. Peachey]

It's not automatic but if the person's talk page has the WP Biography
banner on it, it has a switch called "living" which will put them in
one of the following three categories (not word for word naming):
1. Living People
2. Dead People
3. People missing Living statement
That combined with the death categories that different infoboxes put
them into should give you a pretty good coverage.