Death

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This is a task for the family members, who can ask a funeral parlor to do this for them.

Declaration of death

The necessary permits for the burial or cremation of the deceased can be obtained after reporting the decease at the municipality. There is a waiting period of 24h or 48h, depending on the manner of burial.

The following documents are needed:

• ID card of the deceased
• marriage certificate
• all documents that support the claim

The date and place of burial or cremation are then determined.

Death certificate

A death certificate proves the death and determines the identity of the deceased. This certificate is required so that the registrar may authorize the transportation and burial or cremation of the deceased.

A death certificate is issued by the City for each person deceased on the territory of the municipality. The death certificate is registered in the records of the Registry Office of the City.

Then - if necessary - the certificate is forwarded to the municipality where the deceased lived, where it is registered in the records of the Registry.

An application for an extract or copy of a death certificate is available via e-Brussels.

Costs and fees

The declaration of death is free, but the death certificates are paying (6 euros, in some cases free).

These prices do not include the costs associated with the services of the undertaker in charge of organizing the funeral. These amounts are preferably paid with Bancontact / Mister Cash).

Funeral transportation

• municipal burial tax: 75 euro
• arrival cemetery outside normal hours: 150 euro
• arrival at cemetery on Sunday or public holiday: 300 euro
• stay in the municipal morgue: 15 euro per day
• using the corpse treatment hall: 65 euro

Grave concessions

• 15 years full soil adult: 760 euro
• 15 years full soil child or urn: 380 euro
• columbarium 15 years: 760 euro
• burial right: 760 euro
• exhumation full soil: 375 euro
• exhumation columbarium: 125 euro
• 50 years columbarium: 2,330 euro
• 50 years full soil adult second category under 2.40 m²: 2,256 euro
• 50 years full soil adult second category under 2.64 m²: 2,482 euro
• 50 years full soil child or urn second category: 940 euro
• 50 years full soil first category 2.88 m²: 3,542 euro
• third category crypt 4.13 m²: 5,080 euro
• third category crypt 6.93 m²: 8,524 euro
• second category crypt 4.13 m²: 5823 euro
• first category crypt 7.84 m²: 13,328 euro
• rent common waiting crypt: 3 months: 300 euro, following 3 months: 600 euro, following 3 months: 1200 euro
• rent private waiting crypt with one place: 3 months: 750 euro
• rent private waiting crypt with 2 places: 3 months: 450 euro
• crypt opening: 65 euro

The price of each license shall be increased by 100% or 200% if the deceased did not live in the jurisdiction or the City at the time of his or her death.

• choice of grave
• Brussels cemeteries