Back شهادة وفاة Arabic Úmrtní list Czech Dødsattest Danish Totenschein German Certificado de defunción Spanish گواهی فوت Persian Kuolintodistus Finnish Constat de décès French תעודת פטירה HE मृत्यु प्रमाण पत्र Hindi
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A death certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths.
An official death certificate is usually required to be provided when applying for probate or administration of a deceased estate. They are also sought for genealogical research. The government registration office would usually be required to provide details of deaths, without production of a death certificate, to enable government agencies to update their records, such as electoral registers, government benefits paid, passport records, transfer the inheritance, etc.