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 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
Hand of Death - 1962 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved
The Wheel of Death - 1916 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Melody of Death - 1922 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Road of Death - 1973 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R