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Contacting the travel insurance company

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If the person who died did not have insurance, a relative or a formally appointed representative will usually have to appoint a funeral director and be responsible for all costs. The FCDOForeign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides a list of of UK-based international funeral directors.

Registering the death

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Take athe following documents to the state registrar:

• your own proof of identity, for example your passport

• the death certificate

issued by the doctor, the police station or the gendarmerie

Afterproof registeringof identity for the death,person who died, for example a deathfamily certificaterecord statingbook, identity card, birth or marriage certificate, or passport

Following the causedeclaration of death, a death iscertificate will be issued by the town hall.

If you appoint a local funeral director to register the death on your behalf and collect the death certificate, you mustwill providealso need to give them a letter‘letter authorisingof authorisation’ stating that you authorise them to act on your behalf. The funeral director will advisetell you on what the letter shouldneeds to include.

The death certificate will be issued in French. If you need to officially inform any other organisations of the death, you should ask for extra copies of the death certificate.

You do not need to register the death in the UK. The local death certificate can usually be used in the UK for most purposes, including probate.

Post-mortems

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wish, you can register the death with the Overseas Registration Unit (ORU). You can buy a UK-style death certificate, known as a Consular Death Registration certificate. The ORU will send a record to the General Register Office within 12 months.

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Next of kin

The next of kin for the body.person Onewho mightdied beneeds performedto incarry Senegalout ifthese legal procedures. In Senegal, the causenext of deathkin is unknown,defined unnatural,as suddentheir married partner or violent.closest living blood relative.

Same-sex partners, whether married or not are not recognised as next of kin in Senegal.

If you are not the next of kin, you may need authorisation from that person to register the death or carry out other legal procedures.

Mortuary facilities

Hospitals in Dakar have mortuaries and cold storage facilities. Hospitals outside of the capital may not have cold storage facilities. This may mean the body cannot be preserved in a good condition.

Dealing with a local post-mortem

In Senegal, post-mortems are usually only carried out when the police believe a death is suspicious.

Post-mortems are carried out by forensic doctors appointed by the court. Cultural or religious sensitivities may not be taken into account. The FCDO cannot stop or interfere with the process.

During a post-mortem, small tissue samples and organs may be removed and retained for testing without the consent of the family. You will not automatically be told if this happens.

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