Members of early modern Ottoman society observed a variety of death and burial rites. Practices of preparing and burying the body of the deceased in individual graves according to Muslim, Christian, and Jewish traditions were the most common and visible ones among such rites. Even though there were variations between different confessional communities of the empire, as well as between different regions, what informed those practices were established beliefs about the afterlife that emphasized the need to preserve the integrity of the body (i.e., keeping the body intact) and individualization of the eternal resting place (e.g., digging individual graves, personalized tombstones according to age, gender, and profession). Yet these practices could be transgressed in certain exceptional cases. Different rules governed the death and (non-)burial of individuals that were deemed dangerous and disloyal—politically, religiously, or otherwise. The unruly, the dissident, and the heretical could be punished in violent forms of death, such as by hanging, poisoning, drowning, impalement, or dismemberment. Moreover, those mutilated bodies were subjected to divergent practices of disposal, such as separating their bodies from other dead bodies or denying them a marked individual grave altogether. Violating the integrity of the body and denying a grave to the deceased were then the cruelest forms of punishment imaginable, meant not only to terminate life, but also to destroy the possibility of resurrection. In this presentation, I will discuss such divergent practices of death and burial in the early modern Ottoman context with a view toward questioning what crimes warranted these practices and how political and religious governance extended over the bodies (and souls) of individuals not only during their lifetime but also in the afterlife. My goal is hence to use these divergent practices as an especially revealing window onto the limits of governance in early modern Ottoman society.