Municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân: 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 your municipality for help and information. The telephone number gemeente Súdwest-Fryslân is (0031) 515 489 000.

Registration by funeral directors

You can also ask the funeral home to register the death for you.

• 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.