ABSTRACT
As the idea for a research project formed, I knew for certain it would
be a narrative inquiry. Narrative as a research method assumes
stories are always in motion and allows for the intimate interplay of
researcher with participants. I would be free to build relationships
and connections without feeling pressured to bracket myself out of
the story. My involvement and participation in the phenomenon I
was to study was a given; I would be living, telling, reliving, and
retelling my own story (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990) as the research
progressed. And, just as telling/writing stories about my brother
helped me, I believed other bereaved siblings might also find comfort
in doing so. Narrative allowed for this kind of flow, to story, and
restory; it was “as much a philosophy as a method” (Gilbert,
2002, p. 237).
