Narrating Time: Minimising the Disruption and Discontinuities of Children's Experience of Death

Rolls, Liz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9225-5497 (2010) Narrating Time: Minimising the Disruption and Discontinuities of Children's Experience of Death. Illness, Crisis & Loss, 18 (4). pp. 323-339. doi:10.2190/IL.18.4.c

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Abstract

Childhood parental bereavement is a terrible event which has the potential to fracture their storyline, depriving them of the capacity to make meaning of this event—a component considered essential for adaptation to loss. This article is an exploration of how time is used by one mother in order to minimise disruption and discontinuity, and to do “meaning-making” in the face of the sudden, impending death of her children's father following a road traffic accident. Claire describes this event, unfolding in the present, in which she uses the future to help her act in the present, on events from the past which are still “live” in her children's lives. In holding their future “in mind” in the ever unfolding present of the events she describes, her story is an example of the oscillating nature of time and how it is used to find, create, and reconstruct coherence and meaning.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education, Health and Sciences
Depositing User:	Charlotte Crutchlow
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2025 14:46
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2025 14:46
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15574

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