From what I can see from the more limited history tracking we had in 2018, none of the stories were marked as "Complete" at time of notification. As I have not personally read the stories, I don't know if they are or are not. If you know of stories that are complete and marked as "Author Deceased", add them here and I'll correct them to "Complete"
"Author Deceased" is a complete status in the system, allowing reviews. "Unfinished" implies future finish. "Abandoned" implies deliberately giving up. "Author Deceased" was about all we could come up with to indicate something was unfinished and would never be finished, but wasn't deliberately left that way. And we maxed out the text field size for that too.
Site metrics indicate that the vast majority of traffic doesn't use the filters and would see any story of any status listed. Especially if they click on an authors name. If you are filtering to "Complete" status in order to read, congrats, you are in the 1%.
Not offended... just REALLY long week at work and limited time to reply. Sorry if it's sharper than intended.