What does being "late" (dead) mean?

I was looking at a wedding thinger and I noticed that the groom's dad was deceased. It got me thinking, why do they call deceased "late". Just curious.

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I believe it's because "late" refers only to the recently deceased. Think of the word "lately" which refers to something that happened recently.

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He'll be really late to that wedding. Don't wait.|||Hehehe lmao emgeealex...!

Um, sorry.. I guess it has somehing to do with the deceased being a part of the past and not the present.|||I started wondering that when I started doing genealogy. From what I've been able to determine, it's from the notion that someone was "lately" in existence - I'm not sure if that explains it well, as it's more of a "feel" for the word than anything. The notion that something happened "of late" is the same idea. Perhaps it's a bit of an old-fashioned notion that someone who has died is remembered as though he/she were here only recently, but again, that's just my best guess.|||Because from now on, if they are invited somewhere they will definitely be late.|||The person who is no more.

There was a clerk who used to come late everyday in the office. Colleagues teased him "Mr. Late". He was driving through a crowded road in peak hours and was careful & in driving. The clerk retorted, "It is better to be called "Mr. Late" than to be called "Late. Mr. ...."|||My understanding is that "late" is supposed to be used when the person has recently died. I guess it is supposed to something like, "Lately, this person was Bill Stewart, but now he's not because he's a corpse." (Personally, I believe that the person's spirit is still living, so I don't think that's quite right...)|||Because he will be late to his next birthday.

What does being "late" (dead) mean?

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