This chapter explores the evolving significance of burial and cremation practices in shaping social identity, cultural norms, and historical transformations. It examines inhumation practices, focusing on burial contexts such as churchyards, military cemeteries, and marginalized burial grounds like Potter’s Fields. These sites are analyzed as material and symbolic expressions of community values, reflecting social status, religious affiliations, and collective memory. The chapter highlights how burial spaces are designed to demarcate social boundaries, such as the hierarchical arrangement of graves in churchyards and the exclusion of marginalized communities in segregated burial grounds. Furthermore, the chapter explores the historical development of cremation as a key practice in Eurasian societies, beginning in the Neolithic period. It distinguishes between primary cremation (involving fresh bodies) and secondary cremation (the processing of bones), considering how these rituals evolved in response to major societal changes such as the transition from foraging to agro-pastoralism, population growth, and shifts in kinship and social hierarchies. Case studies from regions like Britain, Ireland, the Aegean, and Germany illustrate how cremation practices were used to express variations in social status, gender roles, and community bonds. By examining both burial and cremation practices, this chapter highlights the dynamic role of death rituals in shaping social memory, identity, and belonging across time, reflecting both historical and contemporary societal shifts.