2023-08-25
33 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemita Basu.
Our Think Again series continues today.
Finding Gratitude in Grief with Anderson Cooper.
Anderson Cooper is now the only living member of his nuclear family.
When he was 10 years old, his father, Wyatt Cooper, died of a heart attack.
About a decade later, his brother Carter died by suicide.
Then just a few Years ago, in 2019, his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, died at the age of 95.
Anderson says it's only recently that he's been able to really talk about and process these losses.
I've never really allowed myself to kind of grieve, and here I am, 56 years old and suddenly find myself feeling things that I've never felt before.
Last year, he came out with a podcast called All There Is, where he talks to celebrities, a physician, a filmmaker, as well as writers and other artists about their experiences with death and grief.
He's also received hours and hours of voice messages from listeners hearing from other people.
It's been incredible to realize that there is this ocean of loss out there and this ocean sadness and melancholy and people who were just missing other people.
The podcast is Anderson Cooper.
Like, you haven't seen him on tv, posting his show on cnn.
It's intensely personal and raw.
You can hear him in the very first episode as he's going through his mother's apartment, coming across things that belong to his father and his brother, trying to narrate his way through layers of.
Memories and hurt so much of this stuff.
It's so my mom that I feel like not keeping it is like throwing her memory away.
Season two of All There Is is coming soon, and I wanted to talk to Anderson as part of our Think Again series about big life transitions, to hear how doing this work has made him think about grief in new ways and the advice he can offer other people who might be struggling with loss.