How to use "deceased" in a sentence

She says her husband, the deceased Mr Dawson, hit her there several times

You need to spend time with the deceased, enough to accept that the body is never going to be animated again."

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

She felt as if she had failed to pay her last respects to the deceased