When a death occurs at home or on the public highway, it sometimes takes several hours before a doctor can come and draw up a certificate. In Côtes-d'Armor, there was only one doctor available to come to your home to make the death certificate, whose certificate is required to proceed with the procedure.
A single doctor on call for an entire department, around ten deaths to be noted in one day... and as many grieving families, traumatized by this endless wait. One solution, proposed by the Ministry of Health in 2023, relies on independent nurses: those who volunteer will be able to issue a death certificate.