Board Thread:Site Problems and Appearance/@comment-8161155-20150314132159/@comment-14512598-20150314225240

Mr B Natural wrote: Many of you are missing my point. Even though it's extremely likely that the pioneers are dead, it was never confirmed. I'm not saying that I think they're alive; I don't. I just think that the deceased category should be reserved for characters who are confirmed deceased. It's not like I'm suggesting we put them in a category called "living", I'm just saying that the less we assume, the better.

Unfortunately this would be the time it falls under the 99+% bit, where there's no real reason to believe they even remotely could be alive.