2011

In this paper we describe our use of narrative practices in helping David, the composite case of an agnostic, terminally ill client who seeks to die well by reexamining his “unfinished business” and his lost sense of spirituality. To help him find closure at the end of his life, we follow his wish of attempting to build a narrative and conceptual bridge from his current agnostic state, to the faith and spirituality of his youth, all while deliberately using his own language and symbolism in a narrative approach (Payne, 2006; White, 2006; White, 2007), that is also spiritually (Pargament, 2007), existentially (Van and Duerzen, 2006; Yalom, 1980) and constructively informed (Frantz, Farell & Trolley, 2002; Neimeyer, 2002; Neimeyer & Winter, 2007).