Proof reader required by the Home Office!

Peter's latest news letter has a link to the Home Office document regarding electronic registration of Births and Deaths in England and Wales. I quote below from the document:-(my underlining)

7.14
Once the death has been registered by the informant, the registrar will be able to send
the disposal document, authorising the cremation/burial to take place, directly to the
person effecting the disposal of the body electronically. Once the cremation/burial
has taken place, the person effecting the disposal of the deceased person will be able
to notify the registrar electronically.

Might this save on stupidly high funeral costs???

 

How does one dispose of a body electronically? However, is your underline obscuring a comma?

 

No, no comma. Perhaps just someone knowing what they meant but not reading what they had written.
With computers I have heard of the black screen of death, but I hadn't thought it could become physical.

 

The standard of reporting/journalism is dropping, yesterday I told my partner the virus is dead.
Because of the headline I saw 'two people died with Covid'.

 

The screen of death has always been associated with being blue coloured, but what does it matter, 'black and blue' seem to go together anyway

 

It should be died OF Covid.

 

They certainly did. The article was about people with Covid and the number who had it and who had died of it on that day.

 

You live with a disease and you die of it.

 

But can they still dispose of the body electronically?

 

Not to mention that a journalist quite likely won't have access to the death certificate, and so regardless of how obvious it may seem, they can't publish that the person died of COVID, as they don't have the sources to prove it. So they write "died with COVID", which is easily provable (they died, and they had COVID at the time) and leave the reader to fill in the blanks.

 

Considering it was a headline for an article about the number of cases and deaths due to Covid, as I said in thread #9, you are all barking up the wrong tree.
You have all missed the point so please leave it here, thanks.

 

Just to round off this thread, would the following make more sense?

Once the death has been registered by the informant, the registrar will be able to send
the disposal document electronically to the person effecting the disposal of the body
authorising the cremation/burial to take place.

 

Yes it definitely would.

 

Or perhaps

Once the death has been registered by the informant, the registrar will be able to send electronically to the person effecting the disposal of the body,
the disposal document authorising the cremation/burial to take place.