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A client has asked about making it more obvious when you are on a Deceased contact. I see their point.

If one checks 'is deceased' you get 'Contact is Deceased' in red, part way down the page.

If you add a 'deceased date' you lose that Red message and just have a unobvious date.

In both cases you lose the 'send email' action but retain 'Phone, Meeting etc. And you can of course still just click on the email address.

Can we head towards something that makes a deceased contact stand out much more obviously - in the way that a Trash contact does. How does Red but not Strikethrough sound? And/or setting all phones etc to Red?

Otherwise I agree it is too easy to open a record, reach for the phone, dial the number, and then realise there was a 'deceased date'