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.
Utopia of Death - 1940 is rated/received certificates of: USA:Approved
Road of Death - 1973 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
Life After Death - 1996 is rated/received certificates of: USA:G
A Death in the Family - 1987 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:M
The Sting of Death - 1921 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
Death and the Mother - 1988 is rated/received certificates of: UK:PG
In the Grip of Death - 1913 is rated/received certificates of: UK:A
The Flight of Death - 1914 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
Jaws of Death - 1977 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG