let me put this a bit more simple, a person aged 75 dies in their sleep, body taken away for post mortem, body brought back for burial, burial takes place. This happened in early june. The way I envisage it post mortem has been completed, ie report written up. I am not aware yet of all the legal niceties in this country but when the person who requires the cert for financial/insurance purposes is told by the office that deals with these matters that one person who is responsible for issuing post mortem goes on leave for 3 weeks the other who has been away for 3 weeks comes back and can take ages to catch up with the paperwork etc etc. I hope you are getting my drift. The person who issued letter to deceased was from the pensions deptartment and it was along the lines do you agree for pension transfer etc etc.
I am not fully conversant with happenings here but to have to wait most of June, all of July, all of August and it looks as if all of September as well for a death certificate that will allow the bereaved person to try and put their financial affairs in order strikes me as callous.
Thanks for replies I will contact the coroners office
and I sincerely hope that what is happening to this person never happens to any of you. Bearing in mind it is happening to an elderly person.
noah