For many indigenous people, the custom remembered following the death of a family or community is called “sorry business”, an indicator for everyone that there has been a death in the community ( NSW Department of Community Services, 2009). Sorry affairs refer to customary protocols that some Indigenous cultures adhere to and include sending the deceased person's spirit into the afterlife and identifying the cause of death (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Branch, 2011). For many indigenous cultures the spirit leaves the body after death and the spirit must be assisted on its journey to the next word. One of the customary protocols for assisting the spirit includes the practice of not mentioning the name of the deceased for months or years after death (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Branch, 2011). Not mentioning the person's name allows the spirit not to be hindered in its passage and therefore not to be called back to the world it has