Death certificate, if their birthday was the day after they died would it state that..plz read?

Question

if lets just say I died today and my birthday was the next day?

would they put on my certificate im 19? or would it say I was 20? as my birthday was the day after, do they say age by date of birth or the age u were

I am trying to find my grandfathers death certificate but I found two, each had a year a part from their age!

Answer 1

they have to say the age they was when died not the age they will be, if you die today at 19 then you was 19 when you died not 20.

Answer 2

they would put your age at the time you died otherwise your death certificate would not be true.  

does not matter whether its age by date of birth or age by the age you were - its the same thing - you are 19 when you die so that is what they put  

Would only say 20 if you died after midnight.  Does not matter what time you were born either

Answer 3

On modern entries, the registrar type the DOB in a computer, and the computer calculates the age. A computer usually follows the formula YYYY/MM/DD minus YYYY/MM/DD to calculate an age, so your age would be 19, since you have not reached 20, even if it is only by a single day.

Maybe your grandfathers certificate contained a clerical error.

Answer 4

They would put 19.

Answer 5

no  it  should  state  time  and  date  of  death   if  before  birthday   ....no  matter   if  day  before  next  birthday   ..that's  the  date  of  death

Answer 6

They would say your age upon your death. If you were 19 and 364 days old when you died, they would say 19. You're not legally 20 until your birthday, and if you die before your birthday, you never turn that age.#

It would be worth checking the older age though, for the sake of an error on the certificate. Hwo silly would you feel to have missed out on finding it because you didn't try the oder age? But technically, it should state the age upon death, no matter when their next birthday was.

Answer 7

19 they look the same but the header is different and other little bits

Answer 8

I have seen some death certificates specify for instance, 19 years, 11 mos, 1 day.  

I don't know where you found the info on your grandfather's death certificate.   If it is, a website, they might be showing the "about age."  They might have taken the information from an index that did not show exact date of birth.

Answer 9

Ignore the "age" information. That's really prone to human error. I don't even know how old I am anymore. I no longer have the stomach to do the math!

I'd look only at his date of death, and remember, the DOBirth information (back then) could have been word-of-mouth from the memory of a bereaved family member.

The birth certificate (or even church christening records) would help you out. Military records also.

Good luck, and happy hunting.