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When a death occurs at home under natural, expected causes (such as when a person has a terminal illness), the personal physician can sign the death certificate. However, in most communities, families still call an ambulance-- at that point, the ambulance must transport to an ER (at a cost of around $500.00 or more). At the ER, a physician pronounces death.

In unexpected, unexplained, or deaths as a probable result of a crime, the coroner pronounces death. For examples of this category, deaths by:

  • gunshot
  • fire, even accidental or non-suspicious
  • flood
  • sudden infant death, if the body has not been moved yet to a hospital
  • crime scenes
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Q: Who pronounces when death is at home?
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