Assofuneral's controversy: 'In Naples you can only die after midday'

The controversy of Assofuneral: 'In Naples you can only die after midday'. Gennaro Tammaro, general secretary of Assofuneral lashes out against the municipality of Naples for the death certificates

“Naples, year of the Lord 2022, practically every company has all the digital tools – from PEC to SPID – to communicate with the public administration and the Municipality of Naples, instead of simplifying the life of the operators, complicates it at every useful occasion.

It is already embarrassing that for a few months now death certificates can only be requested at the Doganella offices on weekends, but the fact that they want to eliminate the dedicated municipal offices and believe that every day to carry out these documents there are only a handful of municipal employees in an area of ​​the city that is already difficult to reach in normal traffic conditions - let alone with bad weather and traffic - means that in Palazzo San Giacomo they do not have the slightest idea of ​​what the city they administer is like".

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Thus in a note Gennaro Tammaro, general secretary of Assofuneral, learning in these hours of the request by the competent offices for human resources available to the municipalities to 'centralize' all the activity in via Santa Maria del Pianto.

“Incredible to imagine – explains Tammaro – that in a complex moment such as mourning, a family and/or an undertaker must cross the entire city for an act that, quite simply, should be almost immediate”.

The documentation in question, which according to the plans of the Neapolitan Municipality must be centralized in the offices of Santa Maria del Pianto, is necessary - explain the funeral directors adhering to Assofuneral - for the organization of the funeral. "Practically – comments Tammaro – it is an invitation to die after noon.”

“We ask that the Administration immediately retrace its steps, not so much to demonstrate that it is still the proximity body that it should be, but at least to demonstrate that it is vaguely aware of knowing what it means to live in the city of Naples to the point of understanding why this is a terrible idea,” he concludes.