This chapter discusses how the new millennium's economic crisis in Zimbabwe manifested itself in fuel shortages. This intricate connection between a decaying economy and fuel shortages in turn affected one of the most fundamental social activities such as mourning and interring the dead. The shift in these practices evinces one of the principal motifs of culture, which is fluid, especially when the material world is factored in. Although rapid permanent urbanization since independence and Zimbabweans cultural interactions with the Western world through television and movies had been slowly changing longstanding Hararean social traditions like funerals and burials, fuel shortages, among other factors, brought that change to a new level between 1999 and 2008. Zimbabwe began having intermittent fuel shortages in 1999. By 2003, the scarcity of fuel in Zimbabwe had become severe that the surest way to get any was to carry special documents like burial orders, which undertakers or bereaving families had to present to service station attendants.