Municipality of Woerden: registering a death

• You must register within 5 days of the death.
• Only a funeral director or surviving relative can register a death.
• The person died within the municipality of Woerden.

• Your passport or ID card.
• A doctor's certificate of death (verklaring van overlijden, model A).
• A statement of the cause of death (doodsoorzaakverklaring, model B).
• Personal details of the deceased.
• If you are a funeral director: eHerkenning at security level 3.
• A marriage booklet, if applicable.

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. A funeral director registers a death online using eHerkenning.

Registering a death is free of charge.

• 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.