If you require a death certificate for your grandmother that passed in 2001, you can get a copy from a department of your local government. Usually the vital statistics department can issue a copy for you as long as you can provide valid personal information in regards to accessing it.
You should be able to get copies of the death certificate from the town clerk's office where the decedent died. Death certificates are a matter of public record and can be obtained by anyone.
Ask your parents or other close relatives. If they are not available, you will need to look to death indexes and death certificates for the state in which she died.
If you are dealing with the estate, then banks, building societies, Local Government will ask you for sight of death certificate. Only then should it be sent - AND IT SHOULD BE A PHOTOCOPY which you send.
Death Play - 1976 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG
The Flight of Death - 1914 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
Jaws of Death - 1977 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG
Touch of Death - 1961 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
Death of a Nation - 2010 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
The Death of Agnes - 1925 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Mrs- Death - 1999 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
Death by Invitation - 1971 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
Death of a Dynasty - 2003 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R