Birth & Death Certificate

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Birth Certificate

A birth certificate is a crucial document that certifies a person's birth. Birth certificates can be either certified copies or representations of the subsequent registration of the birth, or they can be the original document attesting to the circumstances of the birth. A birth record may or may not include confirmation of the event by a midwife or doctor, depending on the jurisdiction. The 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal 17 aims to promote timely access to information about age, gender, race, ethnicity, and other pertinent characteristics, which records like birth certificates have the power to give.

Death Certificate

The authorities typically need a certificate from a doctor or coroner to verify the cause of death and the identify of the deceased before issuing a death certificate. A neurologist is frequently called in to confirm brain death and file the necessary paperwork in situations where it is not quite evident that a person is dead (typically because their body is receiving life support). It is frequently a crime and grounds for losing one's licence to practise medicine for a doctor to fail to submit the necessary paperwork to the government right away (to cause the issuance of the death certificate). This is due to instances in the past where the deceased continued to obtain government benefits or cast election ballots.