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Death Certificate, - Technicality.
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mgnv | Report | 15 May 2008 00:15 |
I saw on TV where a guy was certified dead on arrival at the hospital, and later woke up in the morgue. This was a fictional show, and he was a prisoner doing life for murder, and was now petitioning the courts for release as he'd finished his sentence. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 12 May 2008 10:10 |
well when my brother called the ambulance for mum she wasnt in her home area . the ambulance medics said she had gone but they had to take her to hospital anyway for a doctor to see & certify her, thats why she was certified dead on arrival.this was in 1980 and her anniversary is in a couple of weeks |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 12 May 2008 00:40 |
A lay person cannot declare someone dead. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 11 May 2008 22:00 |
Thank you for your comments. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 11 May 2008 15:06 |
I wish there had been an inquest into my great aunts death. My Grandmother (on the other branch) would probably been called as a witness. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 11 May 2008 14:16 |
My Mum collapsed and died at my younger brothers house. an ambulance was called and she was taken to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival and that's how its recorded on the death cert. No ref at all to her being at my brothers house at the time she technically died. |
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Kay???? | Report | 11 May 2008 14:01 |
Yes Gwyn it shows where the death was confirmed,by a MD ......I have one 1864 but th person drowned in a well 3 miles away,,,,,,so they must have taken him there then sent for the doctor,to the address., |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 11 May 2008 13:49 |
Until a doctor has pronounced the death the person is still technically alive. My great aunt was decapitated during the war. Her death certificate states she died in hospital some 3 miles away. Somehow I think not! |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 11 May 2008 13:38 |
I was told that my great grandfather died while gardening at another house in the village. |