"Is deceased" checkbox and Views
In the end, I removed the "Is Deceased" option from the profile we use to edit the contact's information and created a separate profile which contains only that field. It's a little clunky to present two edit links:


Edit contact information
Mark contact as deceased


...but it works for now. I would have tried it in a Webform (with Webform CiviCRM) but I don't think the image handling pushes back into CiviCRM.