Municipality of Amsterdam: registering a death

Declaration by surviving dependants

You can register the death yourself. You must do this in the municipality where your loved one died. In Amsterdam, you must do this in person at one of the City Offices. You must make an appointment.

Online registration by funeral directors

You can also ask the funeral home to register the death for you. Funeral homes who are located in the Netherlands can register deaths online.

Online registration

Registering a death: free of charge

Official copy of the death certificate: € 16.60. In 2025:  € 17.10.

• As a surviving dependant, you receive the extract from the  death certificate and the verlof tot begraven of cremeren (permission for burial or cremation) immediately.
• Funeral homes should receive the extract and any other documents on the same working day or, at the latest, the next working day.