By Aubrey Williams


Death is inevitable. It is one of the most depressing moments to have lost a special person or a family member. It can happen any time you least expected. Residing in New York can be challenging and fun. You can avail of the benefits offered to the citizens, such as gaining access to your vital records. In the event undesirable incidents occurred in your family, you can request a copy of New York Death Records from the government maintaining such important file.

In most cases, a medical practitioner specifically the physician makes the death record of an individual. The file consist the name of the deceased person, age, gender, date of the incident as well as the declared time of death. The reason of death is included in the said form. The United States of America has reported the top leading causes of death among Americans for the year 2010. Top five causes are cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory problems, stroke, and accidents among others.

Deaths registered within the five boroughs of New York City are requested at the assigned office that handles such records. There are respective offices in the cities of Manhattan, Kings, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island to facilitate death records registered within New York City. Other than that, deaths filed outside of New York City can get a copy of such document at the New York State Department of Health. The office of Vital Records Section sorts and maintains significant files registered within the New York State. There are three possible options in requesting the said file. It can be ordered through telephone, Internet or else, mail a request.

There are corresponding processing fees collected from the applicants. Telephone orders or requests through Internet access will need to pay $45 for every copy and an additional payment of $7.25 vendor processing fee for every transaction. Mail requests can be regular or priority handling. Regular requests are charged with $30 for every copy of the file. On the other hand, priority handling requests has a processing fee of $45 per applied content document. Internet and telephone orders are paid through credit accounts of the applicant. Requests sent through mails must pay the fees in checks or money orders payable to New York State Department of health.

The requests are processed within five to ten business working days for internet and telephone orders. Applicants asking for such copies that are sent thru mails need to wait 14 to 28 days to obtain such documents. This is the expected period for regular handling mails. Priority handling mails are processed for six to eight weeks from the day the payment has been received by the office.

Online searching for Free Death Records is now possible with the easy access of technological advancements. However, free searches are offered as trial versions for some online companies providing such services to their clients. You need to purchase their product to avail the free version of online searching for public documents. All you need to do is provided the required details in the search engine from the chosen company you availed to look up essential files, such as these death reports among others. Nevertheless, it displays results of your searches in matter of minutes.




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