The boxes in the Criteria tab of Queries to include deceased constituents, inactive constituents, or constituents without valid addresses should be automatically unchecked with the user's option to include them, rather than the other way around. For new users, these boxes are very easy to miss and lead to messier queries and potential damaging of relationships by including constituents on large reports like event mailers. It makes much more sense from a stewardship perspective to have these constituents automatically not included, especially after the user has done the work of marking them inactive or deceased on their constituent record.