Closed account and on vacation?

I noticed that in "My Games" there were two games that had been on "a few minutes" left for a few hours. I went to check it out, and apparently my opponent is on vacation. However, it gave the status in the "My Games" section as "Waiting" rather than "Vacation". Furthermore, I clicked on my opponent's profile, and his account has been closed? What has happened here? I thought that once you close your account you resign all your games? Just wondering. 
The games:
http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=68198764
http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=68198766 

It's only eight days, just wait it out.

In this context, his user-name is somewhat ironic.

No, a staff member must take that player off vacation. Notify a staff member, and they will do it (probably).

Then, you will have to wait for that person to time out.

If the account was closed "accidentally" or otherwise unexpectedly, auto-resigning all games would not give the person any time to plead their case to have the account re-opened.  So they allow the games to time-out, instead.  If the user was a premium member, then they still get put on auto-vacation.  You'll just have to wait until their vacation time runs out or they manage to sucessfully re-open the account.

Haha yeah  But I checked the list of caught cheaters, and his name wasn't there, so I think he closed it himself. 
I was just thinking that it might be a glitch that chess.com isn't aware of. 

However, his rating was above mine before he closed his account! I think it was in the 2100's. Which makes me think that he timed out in all his other games. Perhaps they were no vacation games, but that is a lot of games.

I would like if chess.com allowed us to view the players' profiles still, after they were closed. Is there a reason we can't?