death certificate
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vital record that documents a death
Research
12,973 papers- [Medical death certificate].Revue medicale de Bruxelles · 2013
- [Death certificate: Easy, fast and without fear of being wrong].Semergen · 2025
- Autopsy Service Death Certificate Review.Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine · 2020
- Death certificate-based occupational mortality surveillance in the United States.American journal of industrial medicine · 1987
- [Development of an electronic death certificate for Germany].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2019
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Encyclopedic overview
Eddie August Schneider's (1911–1940) death certificate, issued in New York.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “death certificate” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.