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I don't know what you mean with "disappear". The documentation doesn't use this word and it doesn't make any sense to have messages disappear on purpose.
The feature of latching makes sure that a new subscriber always gets the last message that was published even if the message was published before the subscriber was connected. Text in bold is the difference to an unlatched connection.