Municipality of Heerenveen: registering a death

What to bring

• your valid ID death certificate, drawn up by the attending physician or the municipal coroner 
• statement about the cause of death for Statistics Netherlands (B envelope), issued by the attending physician 
• if you want it updated: the marriage booklet 
• in case of unnatural cause of death: declaration of no objection to burial or cremation, issued by the public prosecutor 
• if a postponement of burial or cremation is necessary: statement of no objection, issued by a doctor 
• if the deceased wishes to make themselves available to science: request to the mayor to issue permission for dissection.

Declaration by surviving dependants

You can register a death yourself. You do this in the municipality where your loved one died. Make an appointment with the municipality for this.

Online registration by funeral directors

Entrepreneurs can submit a declaration online with a form. You need eHerkenning for this.

Official copy of the death certificate: € 15,70

After the notification

You will receive an extract from the death register from the municipality and written permission for the burial or cremation of the deceased.