"Terry" <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1swmujt7jbx6i$.1hhaiatwuhzow.dlg@40tude.net... > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:23:26 GMT, Scruffy McScruffovitch wrote: > >> 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. > > Much the same in UK - however did the certified copy show the place of > interment? - this is what I found interesting in the original post. Yes. Graveyard only though, not the specific lot and grave. > > In UK, although of course folks do make prior arrangements, you don't know > from the death certificate whether the deceased was buried or cremated and > certainly not where. Most death certificates I have seen involving copies for the German side of my family going back to 1852 have shown at least the graveyard. The only one that didn't was poor Sarah. She did as a patient in Eloise in Nankin Township, Southwest of Detroit. Eloise was a large hospital that housed, among others, mental patients. Since none of them have been cremated, I don't know if they would show that or not, I suspect that they would though. > > Didn't mean to be picky on the interment vs. internment but didn't want to > confuse the OP! No problem.