What does this mean on a death certificate??

Question

I was looking at the death certificate of my second great aunt. It says she died of tuberculosis. There is a section that says --burial, cremation or removal-- and "removal" is marked. What does that mean?

Answer 1

It means that the disposal of the body is to another country for burial or cremation there.

Answer 2

Not a different country -- just out of the jurisdiction of the government agency that certified the death certificate. In the USA, that could be in next county two miles down the road.

Check online for the library in the town where she died. If it's a small town, email the librarian with all the info you have. There may have been a death notice in the local newspaper telling people that the services and burial were going to be somewhere else.

Answer 3

Removal applies to removal from STATE.  Not county as answered above.  Removal could be to another state or out of the country.  It also does not mean it was removed from the funeral home to the cemetery.  It is removal from state, as death certificates are issued by each state, and can be filed in any county of that same state.

Answer 4

I believe it means the body is to be removed to another jurisdiction from where the person died.  It could be another state or country.

Answer 5

Removal means that it was released from the funeral home, as simple as that.

If there is a cemetery name, it was removed from the funeral home to the cemetery.