Municipality of Utrecht: registering a death

Online declaration by funeral directors

• eHerkenning
• establishment number Chamber of Commerce
• Citizen service number (BSN) of the deceased person
• Login information iDeal
• Declaration of natural death from the attending physician.
• B Envelope. 
• Burial or cremation within 36 hours of death? Declaration of no-objection from the attending physician and from the public prosecutor.
• Burial or cremation more than 6 business days after death? Declaration of no-objection from the attending physician.

Declaration by surviving dependants at the counter

• Declaration of natural death from the attending physician.
• B Envelope. 
• Burial or cremation within 36 hours of death? Declaration of no-objection from the attending physician and from the public prosecutor.
• Burial or cremation more than 6 business days after death? Declaration of no-objection from the attending physician.

Declaration by surviving dependants

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

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.

Registering a death: free of charge

Official copy of the death certificate: € 16,60.

• 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.