I agree with Glen on this one. My mother-in-law passed away in a hospital about 5:30 on a Saturday evening and it took the attending physician over 3 hours to arrive because of more pressing emergencies. When my friend's father passed away, it was a weekend and there was only one coroner available to handle the entire city. En-route to my friend's home, the coroner was involved in a car accident, so it was about 6 hours before the coroner was able to pronounce my friend's father. I can easily see that the official death certificate might list the date of death as a day later than it occurred any time it is evening or there are other extenuating circumstances. Beth
From: "Glen Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Death Certificate Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:32:22 -0800 Reply-To: [email protected] Even in this case, your father could have been pronounced after 12:00 AM by an attending. I don't think nurses can pronounce, so they may have waited until an attending arrived. This does happen. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Star Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Death Certificate Not in this case. He was in the hospital. He died at 715pm January 10 but for some reason, probably a typo, his death certificate said January 11 altho all other records say January 10, as well as the fact that when I went to work that morning found that my office burned to the ground at NAS Moffett Field, California the evening before and worked all day trying to retrieve some of my records... Was quite a day. Star -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 01/09/05 14:45:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Death Certificate Was he "pronounced" dead on January 11th? I think this happens more frequently than we think. I have two recent cases like that. One died on Aug. 1, at home, of a heart attack. It was discovered before 11:00 p.m. but by the time the coroner and police arrived, it was well after midnight. His death certificate says he died on Aug. 2. Because his family knew when he died, his headstone and obituary both have Aug. 1 as the death date. Another case is where a daughter paid a visit to her father on Sunday, Feb. 29/04, and discovered he was very ill. He refused to go to the hospital, and she had to fly home that afternoon. That evening and all day Monday she phoned his place but there wasn't any answer. Tuesday, she had someone check on him, only to discover he was dead, and in the same place she last saw him. She was told that he likely died that Sunday, however, since he was pronounced dead on Tuesday, March 2/04, that's what his death certificate says. In this case, the family used the March 2 date on his obituary. I often wonder about victims of violence whose bodies aren't discovered till months or years later. What does their death certificate say? About the only thing you can do is add it to your notes -- the person was "pronounced" dead on such & such a date. Kathy --------------------- From: "Star" > The death certificate may be fairly accurate but it too can be wrong. > My > father died on January 10 but his death certificate says January 11. I > have > all my records correct, the newspapers reported his death date correct > and > his headstone is correct but not the death certificate. So much for that. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
