Certification of death

Certification of death 1. The physician in charge of the decedent’s care shall certify to the cause of death if death does not affect the public interest. 2. The medical examiner shall certify cause in deaths affecting the public interest. A death affecting the public interest is defined by Sections 41-61-53(e) and 41-61-59 of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated. 3. Where an attending physician refuses to sign a certificate of death, or in case of any death affecting the public interest, the State Medical Examiner or properly qualified designee shall sign the death certificate 4. In any case where doubt exists as to who shall certify, the medical examiner shall certify the death.