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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Sgt_Tollers on Tuesday 07 July 09 15:58 BST (UK)
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Hi all,
Sadly, a member within my family tree took their own life some years ago.
Upon purchasing this certificate, I have been informed that between the actual death and the issuing of the death certificate, there is an eleven month gap due to what seems to me to be a late inquest.
I have always been informed that a death certificate is required before a person can be buried, however I know that said family member was buried about a week after their death.
Can anyone inform me of how burial is achieved without the presence of a death certificate?
Thanking you all in advance.
Kind regards,
Sgt Tollers
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The Coroner will issue a 'permission to bury' (or something like that) certificate. I cant remeber the actual name, but it enabled funeral to take place, probate to be applied for etc etc in the same way as a death cert.
Inquests seem to take longer and longer.
When my step mum died three years ago it was over a year till they eventually had the inquest and a proper death cert was issued.
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For an ordinary death you get a "Certificate of Burial or Cremation" - this is a green form that is given to the Funeral Director, although you have to register the death to get one. If the Coroner is to hold an inquest there will be no green form and instead the Coroner will issue an Order for Burial. The death cannot be registered until after the inquest, which can be much later.
Stan
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There is an interim death certificate - sadly I've seen one all too recently - issued to the family which allows the funeral to take place. The inquest into the death took place nearly three months later, after which the coroner said he would register the death.
Nell