Death, dying, and the management of grief are primarily seen as events beyond human influence or as expressions of individual behavior. However, the directions and forms that arise from these experiences are fundamentally cultural, meaning they are socially conditioned. This applies to the engagement with the meaning of dying, the causes and places of death, the forms of coping with grief, the variety of burial methods, and memorial rituals. Death retains its ambivalence. In modern societies, it has been successfully fought against, meaning it has been postponed. On the other hand, there still exists intentional, politically legitimized killing. Currently, a profound transformation in grief and burial culture is being observed. Alongside a progressing professionalization, desacralization, and anonymization, diverse individual and milieu-specific forms are emerging.