Probably agree with niknak and farmer 1 really. Not pleasant but we should be specific. I always used to check, not - thankfully that it happened often, but if there was any ambiguity it was always worth checking.
"4 POB and 1 Deceased". Specific and to the point no ambiguity.
(However, where I worked previously, we used to work on the basis that there are a lot of people with scanners out there, and in small communities where a SAR heli is responding to a specific fishing boat for example ... well, I'm sure you can understand that discretion on frequency can be important)