Declaration of Death - Death in hospital or nursing home
Verified 29 avril 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
General case
It's a doctor who records the death and establishes the death certificate.
Please note
On an experimental basis, a nurse may record the death and establish the death certificate when the person has died in a Ehpad: titleContent.
Violent death
In case of violent death (e.g. accidental death, suicide), the police or national gendarmerie should be alerted.
Funerals can only take place after obtaining judicial authorization, called record for burial.
It shall be drawn up by a judicial police officer, on the order of the public prosecutor.
The institution is responsible for the declaration of death to the civil registry office of the municipality of death (or the civil registry office of the hospital).
Please note
The establishment can ask for the family record book or an identity document of the deceased.
The institution must report the death within 24 hours.
Following the declaration of death, the City Hall establishes a death certificate.
Please note
The mortuary chamber of a health facility receives the deceased free of charge for 3 days (then at the daily rate). The reception in a private funeral room (or funeral home) is paid from the 1ster day. In addition, admission must be made within 48 hours of death. Conservation care is not mandatory.
Death certificate
Post-death operations
Experiment in which a nurse can sign a death certificate
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