Death certificates

martin goddard · February 14, 2019, 06:29:15 PM

Death certificates are to go up in price £11?

Leman (Andy) · February 14, 2019, 06:35:49 PM

Damn! I should've died yesterday.

Hman · February 14, 2019, 06:51:14 PM

I think that is the price for a full copy, you are provided with a free copy when you register the death.

Leslie BT · February 14, 2019, 07:50:01 PM

I dont think that I will be concerned about the cost of my death certificate.

Panzer21 · July 03, 2020, 03:03:40 PM

Quote from: Hman on February 14, 2019, 06:51:14 PM
I think that is the price for a full copy, you are provided with a free copy when you register the death.

Nope! You have to buy them £14 each, with an estimated 10-20 copies needed by banks etc.

John Watson · July 03, 2020, 04:41:53 PM

The number you need depends on how widespread the deceased's assets are. With my mother and step father I got away with 3 for each of them.
John

martin goddard · July 03, 2020, 05:16:40 PM

I think the doctors get a hefty fee when signing them off.
Maybe we should avoid dying if it is that expensive? $:-\$

martin

Leman (Andy) · July 04, 2020, 03:29:54 PM

It is now unlikely that I will die in this country.

martin goddard · July 04, 2020, 05:30:02 PM

That will annoy the UK doctors.
I think it is about £80 per certificate they get paid for their signature.

martin

Moggy · July 13, 2020, 01:27:41 PM

My experience with death certificate as the executor of my fathers estate early last year was that you only need a couple and most organisations now will accept copies.

What did come as a suprise was a government website that allows you to inform just about any governmental organisation (including the public library) that someone has passed away in one action. The person who designed this site should be sacked for making just about every other website with.gov at the end seem as bad as they are.

fastolfrus · September 17, 2020, 02:51:56 PM

There's a LARP site that specialises in props for Cthulhu Live which used to have (amongst other things) asylum certificates, mortuary toe-tags, and death certificates.
I suppose you could just print your own.... of course it would mean the death toll for Arkham County would spiral again....

sukhe_bator (Neil) · November 11, 2022, 03:55:34 PM

Do they do degree certificates too?... I always fancied one in Parapsychology from Miskatonic University...

Moggy · November 11, 2022, 04:16:38 PM

Based on my experience doing my late father estate (4 years ago) and my late father-in-laws estate 2 years ago the number of actual death certs is suprisingly low. Far less than the number they tell you.

You will have to go into the bank regardless and can show them the actual cert. they will photocopy it. Likewise most agencies and companies are quite happy to accept a photcopy. I think with both estates we only needed 3 in each case and the wife dad's estate was quite complicated.

Dont forget there is a one stop shop you can use online to notify almost every agency the Government is connected to to tell about the death. Its really easy to do and covers down even as far as notifying the local libruary. You get the access to it when you register the death.

Derek

sukhe_bator (Neil) · November 11, 2022, 05:05:41 PM

I found the one stop shop notification can cause complications - stopping phone (admittedly landline) but other things you might need to access can get frozen while sorting out affairs...

Moggy · November 11, 2022, 05:17:06 PM

Was sweet as can be for me. Didn't live at the property in either case so the phone line thing wasn't an issue.

In some cases they emailed back but at each puint of call they were have for a scan of the death cert when reqwuired. Bear in mind you cant access it wihtout the code from the registrar so they can be satisfied with the death and details as that is entered by registrar.

Derek