Certificado De Practica Tanatopraxica

[The_Burg]

Can anyone tell me what this means?

We received this when a body was repatriated from Ibiza, i won't go into it here.
Anyway this is the first time i've seen it and they assumed it was a death certificate.
However it doesn't look very official and i have a feeling it isn't.

[stemll]

Tanatopraxia is embalming

Edited by stemll on Wednesday 6th October 19:11

[BlackVanGirl]

Embalming, I'm almost certain. Probably necessary for international transport because of risk of spreading disease etc. Sorry you've had to deal with it

[The_Burg]

Ah, tis what i thought after using babelfish.

What would the actual death certificate say at the top?

[BlackVanGirl]

Certificado de Defunción in mainland Spain, probably the same in the Balearics.