As I mentioned earlier, one of the key delays is the time the doctor takes to fill out the cause of death, sign off on the death certificate, and then forward it to vital statistics. It doesn't come back to the funeral home for us to forward. The doctor does it. Once we've filled out the civil portion that we're required to do and we forward it to the doctor, the onus is on him to get it to vital stats. You have different timeframes based on whether it sat on his desk for 10 days or whether he looked at it right away. There are a lot of different factors.
On October 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.