In a typical situation one of the roles of a funeral director is
to collect the information which is used to populate the death
certificate, which is issued by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and
Marriages. It is therefore important to make sure the information
given to the funeral director is correct – if the death
certificate is incorrect or incomplete this might cause issues
later with obtaining a grant of probate or a grant of letters of
administration.
If someone has died in a nursing home or a hospital, the process
for getting a death certificate is usually straightforward. There
are systems in place to notify the relevant authorities because
it's such a routine occurrence.
