🕯️What to handle after someone dies

If someone dies at home or elsewhere, first tell a natural death from an unnatural one: for an accident, an unknown cause, or someone found after living alone, call the police right away and don't touch the body or the scene

If the person died in an accident, in a way no one understands, or was found only after living alone for a long time, and had no hospital treatment, the public security authorities (公安) issue the death certificate. If the scene has been disturbed and things can't be explained, the certificate is hard to get. Without this paper, cremation, deregistering the household registration and insurance claims are all stuck. If you can't tell which kind it is, call 110 (China's police number) first. After the police arrive and finish their check, they will issue the certificate as usual.