death certificate

[insurance]

why is it the time if death was left of a death certificate.

when the person died in hospital.just the date has been recorded.

[Yinzer]

Perhaps the nurse or doctor found the patient deceased upon entering the room, and could not give a precise time since no one actually witnessed it.

[woofgang]

Yinzer, I was going to post the same. My father died in his sleep (merciful release). He was being checked 2 hourly and was found dead

[Octavius]

We went in the hospital to visit my dad and we found him dead in a bed on the ward.  The doctors and nurses didn't have a clue until we told them.

 

 

[insurance]

thanks for replying,the doctors were there when he died.

but no time of death was recorded.as it is the first death

certificate i have seen

i thought a time had to be recorded by law.

[ianess]

When my sister died [in hospital] the time of death was given as the time the doctor signed the certificate, even though there was a 2 hour difference.  Can`t say why no time was given in your example though.

[Yinzer]

Then maybe they just forgot?