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Joe Anderson

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I've found the field "limb only" to be ticked in a certificate of death. I might suppose it means "there is only a part of the body". I don't see other variants. What could it be?
What are the other choices that could be ticked in that section, Joe? And is there any sort of heading for the section?
Do you mean a form like this one, Joe?

The instruction given there is:
Check [= tick] this box if the Death Certificate is being generated to dispose of a limb and no death has occurred
The first part of the form's table has the following heading:

1a. Legal Name of Decedent (First, Middle, Last, Suffix)

2b. Also Known As (AKA), If Any (First, Middle, Last, Suffix)

These two fields need a text to be input below. The field "limb only" unites them both and is located to the right. It is the only field in the Certificate to be ticked. There are no actual hints revealing its meaning. However, this field remains empty. That could give us a tip.
though...I feel difficult to understand the sense of this phrase...Does it mean that some part of the body has been taken and no death has actually happened or only some part has been found?
It seems a touch macabre to require a death certificate to be completed for someone's leg (that may have had to be amputated for whatever reason) when its owner is still alive.
Is there any point to this?
It seems a touch macabre to require a death certificate to be completed for someone's leg (that may have had to be amputated for whatever reason) when its owner is still alive.
Is there any point to this?
Nothing macabre about bureacracy - it is simply the paperwork required to allow "legal" destruction of human body parts.
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