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I have two examples, one on each side of the Atlantic, of dealing with the bureaucracy surrounding a death.My British husband died in August of 1991. Once I had the OK from the coroner, I had to register his death at the local registrar’s office. A friend drove me there. It took about 10 minutes to state his name, birth date, birth place, his occupation, his father’s name and his father’s occupation and check the spelling. (I got the birthplace wrong, sadly, but I was close.) A few more minutes elapsed while this was typed up and I was given several copies of the death certificate. He died intestate. A glance at his death certificate was all the bank needed to unfreeze our joint account into my name (I had to sign a paper stating I’d reimburse the bank if the money transferred did not all belong to me by right of the administration of his estate). The house we owned had to be valued, but then was immediately transferred into my name, as was our remaining mortgage. The tax office refunded to me a small amount of tax he’d overpaid before he died, without my requesting it. The bureaucracy was all over and done with in a matter of a couple of months.My American mother died in 2003. The undertaker’s firm helped me with the immediate paperwork regarding her death. I supplied similar information to that I’d supplied for my husband: name, maiden name, birth date, birth place, occupation, etc. Some days later I received several copies of her death certificates (there were two different forms of death certificate), with a long list of instructions about informing the social security office, various other offices, etc. These instructions were full of acronyms and the titles of offices and officers I had no knowledge of as I hadn’t lived in the US for over 35 years. I tried to inform the social security office, which involved a large number of phone calls and endless waiting. I never seemed to have the information or the form that they needed, so I’d be sent back to get it (from where???). For some years I had been a joint account holder on my mother’s bank account, so I could pay bills on her behalf. The bank needed two copies of the death certificate, a notarized statement from me, sight of my mother’s will. It took about a month and a half to transfer the money solely into my name, during which time the joint account was blocked and I had to pay expenses out of my British bank account (which was another nightmare in itself).I never did manage to satisfy the social security office, even though all I wanted to do was state that they no longer needed to pay her social security.She was no longer filling in 1040s (I believe because all she lived on was her social security, she didn’t have to), but I couldn’t find anyone who would verify to me that there was no further need to file any returns.Trying to sell her house was another nightmare of back-and-forth shuffling with paperwork, etc., etc.It was a year and a bit before I could be certain that it was all taken care of.

I highly suspect that, whether legal or not, your boss and/or HR wants proof of death so that they can say they offered you paid bereavement leave. So you save face by telling them that you are going to take a sick/personal/vacation/whatever day instead. If they still press you for proof of death, you can say that you weren't close enough to your cousin's family that you can get a death certificate, and reiterate the request for sick leave, not bereavement leave. Hopefully that will clear it up without you coming across as having integrity issues.And of course, don't ever pull something like this again.

Beyond power and salary, the post will give you job satisfaction which many people fail to get in other profession.Let me share my one good experienceA middle-aged men wants to sell his land for his child education. He got the land from his father and his father died fourteen years before and he wants to transfer the land to his name now before he sells to anyone. He is the only surviving legal heir to the deceased person.He applied for the legal heir certificate and the Tashildar rejected the petition stating the death certificate for the deceased person is mandatory to issue Legal Heir certificate. Sub Divisional Magistrate( SDM) authorised to issue unregistered Birth/Death certificate for his/her division.The man came to Monday Grievances Day Petition (GDP) and told me that his petition got rejected at Taluk and he already gave Petition to collector to help him and it's still not resolved and again he came for GDP and said he don't know how to go ahead further. I got his petition and requested collector to mark as a special petition and requested collector that I will follow-up this petition personally.The earlier petition he gave to District Collector was marked to SDM office and from SDM office the file went to Taluk office to conduct field enquiry but the letter from Taluk office didn't go to Firka Inspector for Field Enquiry. I bridged the gap and instructed Tashildar to sent the letter to Firka Inspector and requested the report has to reach the SDM office by next two days. SDM office received the report and SDM gave the death certificate within a week.The man blessed me and said he won't forget me and he will remember me forever. I felt happy that moment. This kind of great moment happens in your life.Photo: Phone GalleryNote:Excuse my grammatical mistake.Thanks for reading.