Paperwork for a funeral

I’ll keep you right.

This week I was asked a question about paperwork for cremation and thought it worth sharing.

The funeral director will keep you right but it’s useful to know in case you’re trying to do it all yourself.

The first piece of paperwork in the chain is signed by the doctor and emailed to the Registrar. it’s the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (Form 11). Families used to get that and take it to the Registrar, but since Covid, everything has become digital. The family or the funeral director acting for them now Register the death over the phone.

The Registrar issues Form 14 to the funeral director. This travels with the person who has died to burial or cremation. along with other forms.

If it was a sudden death, in Scotland, that goes to the Procurator Fiscal for consideration.

The main thing is, don’t worry, the professionals in the system will keep you right.