On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:42:49 -0500, Unsprung wrote: > What does "place of intenment" mean on a death certificate. This person died > in NH but the place of interment was VT. The cemetery is not listed. > > Peter Well the the obvious answer is to look it up in a dictionary (that's a book)or use Google or even Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial I am interested that a place of interment should be shown on a Death Certificate. The Death Certificate is surely issued prior to this event. The place of interment may not even be decided when the Death Certificate is issued. Is this common in the USA? I have never heard of this before. -- Terry

"Terry" <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1pl9ldpp5prz5.jwt27z7kzv8m$.dlg@40tude.net... > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:42:49 -0500, Unsprung wrote: > >> What does "place of intenment" mean on a death certificate. This person >> died >> in NH but the place of interment was VT. The cemetery is not listed. >> >> Peter > > Well the the obvious answer is to look it up in a dictionary (that's a > book)or use Google or even Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial > > I am interested that a place of interment should be shown on a Death > Certificate. The Death Certificate is surely issued prior to this event. > The place of interment may not even be decided when the Death Certificate > is issued. Is this common in the USA? I have never heard of this before. > The death certificate is generally filled out a 1 - 3 days after the death and sometimes later if an involved autopsy is required. By that time, the family has made the arrangements, and they know where the body will be intered. Also, people often make arrangements, buy burial plots, etc before they croak, or they have family plots. When my dad passed in 2005, all his arrangements were already made. All we had to do is fill out the death cert information, the Coroner signed it, and sent it to the state for whatever processing they do. We got certified copies in about a month.

Terry <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1pl9ldpp5prz5.jwt27z7kzv8m$.dlg@40tude.net: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:42:49 -0500, Unsprung wrote: > >> What does "place of intenment" mean on a death certificate. >> This person died in NH but the place of interment was VT. The >> cemetery is not listed. >> >> Peter > > Well the the obvious answer is to look it up in a dictionary > (that's a book)or use Google or even Wikipedia: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial > > I am interested that a place of interment should be shown on a > Death Certificate. The Death Certificate is surely issued > prior to this event. The place of interment may not even be > decided when the Death Certificate is issued. Is this common > in the USA? I have never heard of this before. It's not uncommon; especially if the body is being retrieved from a morgue or mortuary. They have to process the paperwork showing that the body is being released to the family, and that arrangements have been made. It's not necessarily filled in by a doctor at the time of death, although that's also possible. Call it 50/50. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://manormaniac.blogspot.com/ Life is like pudding; soft and squishy...