Do funeral homes make money off death certificates when the survivor orders them?

All they are doing is printing it up and putting their raised seal on it, so for $20 each, yes, they’re making money off of them.

I could see having two original copies but I can’t see the logic of having 10.

She just did what they told her to do.
I thought certificates, marriage, birth, death etc, had to come from the state.

I tried to copy a link but it wasn’t working.
The DC said it was a certified copy from the Office of Vital Statistical in Topeka KS.
The funeral home didn’t print them.

Also @jca2, they are legal documents. Only government entities, like the Office of Vital Statistics, located in the state’s capitals can send them out.
I had to send one to the Social Security office, along with my official marriage certificate.

Of course they did. Funeral homes will bill you to death

And they saw Gena coming from a mile away.

I’m going to call Topeka today.

@Dutchess_III The funeral home types up the death certificate and they issue it initially, then they file it with the state. The funeral home gets the information about the deceased from the family and from the pathologist.

Well, I talked to them. It’s $20 per copy. So no profit there.

@jca2 yes. The funeral home sends the information they gather to the state.
The key is certified. Only the state can generate certified copies. The funeral home can not.
We got the copies a couple of weeks after the funeral.
It is a legal document.
The name of the funeral home is no where on it.

Yes, it’s a legal document, @Dutchess_III.

And the funeral homes can not generate legal documents.