Deaths, Funerals & Cremations

Information about Coping with Bereavement, Costs, Memorials, Registering a Death, Searching the Register and writing a Will.

• Buying a grave
  Information about buying a grave.
• Cemeteries in Solihull
  Information about cemeteries and crematoriums in Solihull including contact details, maps and services available.
• Coroners
  A Coroner enquires into those deaths reported to him or her. It is his or her duty to find out the medical cause of the death, if it is not known, and to enquire about the cause of it if it was due to violence or otherwise appears to be unnatural.
• Cremation
  Information about cremations.
• Death - registering
  A death must be registered within five days of its occurrence. This period may be extended in exceptional circumstances and if the Coroner is involved. The registration must take place in the district where the death happened.
• Deaths historical searches
  The indexes in our Registrar office relate only to births, marriages and deaths which occurred within our area.
• Exhumation
  Information about exhuming a deceased body.
• Funeral - municipal
  Solihull Council offers a burial or cremation service for people that have no next of kin or no finances.
• Funeral expenses
  Information about cemeteries and funeral expenses.
• Independent funerals
  It is often assumed, quite wrongly, that funerals can be completed only with the use of a Funeral Director. Although a Funeral Director will be invited to organise the majority of funerals, some people however find great comfort from being involved totally of even partially, in making the arrangements for the funeral of a loved one.
• Living Wills
  A Living Will, which is also known as an Advance Directive is a legally binding document which you sign and instructs your doctor what type of medical treatment you would or would not want to receive if you become unable to make decisions or to communicate your wishes.
• Mortuary service
  The mortuary service handles deaths that have been referred to the coroner or deaths where no death certificate can be issued.
• Ordering a memorial
  The following is a brief description of the memorial schemes available at Solihull Cemeteries and Crematoria, they may not be available at all sites.
• Repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales
  Information about repatriation of a deceased body from abroad to England or Wales.
• Stillbirth - registering
  Information on registering a still-birth that occurred in England or Wales.
• Using A Funeral Director