Municipality of Breda: 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. Contact the municipality of Breda: Contact Breda. 

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. Contact the municipality of Breda: Contact Breda.

You pay a fee for this service. For more information, contact the municipality.

• 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.