Over the last decades, the death rate in so-called isolated Aboriginal communities in Central and Northern Australia has been relatively high. The causes are various: poor health status, alcoholism, car accidents and violence. Aboriginal people seem to be constantly involved in what they themselves call, in English, “sorry business” or mourning rituals. In 2013, in the Aboriginal community of Balgo (Australian Western Desert) where I have been conducting research since the 1980s, attending “sorry business” had almost become part of daily life. While the Catholic Church handles some aspects of the funeral ceremonies such as the Mass, the “sorry business” starts as soon as a death is confirmed and continues over many weeks. In this paper, I first explain the Aboriginal conception of death and describe contemporary mourning and funerary rites. I then question the how and why of such high mortality rate within the Australian Nation-State, which, while focusing on the “normalization” of Aboriginal people, continues to deny their difference.