If a baby were born,
what important identification document should be issued?
✔ a birth certificate .......
Then the baby grew up,
what important identification document should be issued?
✔ an identification card .......
When his/her time has come to the end,
what important identification document should be issued?
✔ a DEATH CERTIFICATE .......
✏ to prevent from being buried illegally
✏ pension
✏ insurance
✏ inheritance
✏ debt
✏ law
✏ et cetera
MD roles?
☛ Determine the death (circulation, respiration & neurology stop, plus no secondary post-mortem changes after 2 hours incubation period - this is needed to exclude coma)
☛ Autopsy (done if difficult to find out the cause of death)
☛ Forensic Identification (if unidentified, or to confirm identification)
Let's see what are the details that should be written in a death certificate:
❧ Name
❧ Age (at time of death)
❧ Gender
❧ Address
❧ Date of death
❧ Cause of death
However in Indonesia, there's no standard guidelines taken. Most of the death certificates here don't have the 'cause of death' part. It will only be written if the late person was a patient who had died after receiving a long term care & treatment in a hospital. Oh, here's an example of the 'cause of death' part.
Cause of Death??
❦ Written in 'chain of events'. For example, events occurred minutes, hours, days and years before the time of death, which may be linked to each others, and resulted death of the person.
Knowledge is power.
and He is the Most Powerful, for He knows everything :)
