Having accurate death records saves lives. By Jane E. Brody A combination of journalistic curiosity and advancing years prompts me to read obituaries regularly. I routinely check for ages and causes ...

A death certificate is a final marker in someone’s life — an official accounting of the end. The legal forms are used by families to settle estates and by public health officials to assess whether the ...

In Kansas, a death certificate must be signed by a physician before a person is officially declared deceased. But who signs the death certificate? And when is it signed? As part of The Topeka ...

In late January, the official death toll from COVID-19 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, stood at 210. At a makeshift memorial at an Episcopal church, friends and relatives planted small white flags ...

The practice gives fraudsters easy access to a key piece of personal information they can use in their scams, officials say State officials worried about fraud are calling for changes to the state law ...

Marc Trabsky receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Queen Elizabeth’s newly released death certificate contains just two curious words under her cause of death – old age. We might talk ...

Thousands of Americans are given the wrong race on their death certificates each year. An average 30% Native American, 3% Asian, and 3% Hispanic deaths are mislabeled. Three affected families told ...

Macon County Coroner Brian Hayes handles the death certificates for this cattle, corn and soybean region of 15,000 in north-central Missouri, near Kirksville — roughly 130 to 140 deaths each year.

For two weeks, Rose Tedder has waited anxiously for the piece of paper that could finally give her closure after her husband's death. While Arkansas law requires a death certificate be returned to ...

This story was reported by: Dillon Bergin, Betsy Ladyzhets, Jake Kincaid and Derek Kravitz of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and MuckRock’s Documenting COVID-19 project; Rudi Keller of The ...