Throughout this website there are useful forms – we’ve clustered them all together on this page.
Easy Peasy Funeral Plan
We’ve designed this form to help simplify the task of funeral planning. If it seems initially daunting, perhaps begin with the things you definitely don’t want, which will help to shape the things you do.
CheckList
When you start to arrange a funeral there are so many decisions to make & remember – we’ve devised a comprehensive CheckList to make this a bit simpler.
Registration Details
Only after the cremation or burial of the body can we register a death with Births, Deaths & Marriages (BDM) which is part of the government’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA).
We can do this through an online government portal. The hard copy of the Death Certificate is sent directly to us by post, which we then scan, email to you and give you the original hard copy.
A death certificate becomes a public document as part of New Zealand’s national population register, it also acts a family record used in genealogy searches.
It records:
- personal information including: place of birth, occupation, recognised relationships and resulting children (information provided by family)
- cause of death and contributing health factors (information provided by the Certifying Health Practitioner)*
- place and date of burial or cremation (information provided by the Funeral Director)
* In a Coronial Case, when the cause of death requires an investigation, an interim Death Certificate is issued. On completion of the investigation (some months later) the certificate can be amended with the Coroner’s findings.
‘After’ Admin
After the funeral there is a lot of administration needed to tie-up the estate. We’ve created a ‘who to’ contact list.
