Curing Grief with Cody Delistraty
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Writer Cody Delistraty joins Vanessa to talk about his book The Grief Cure, a quest narrative through loss, myth, medicine, and modern grief culture. From the controversial diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the American obsession with “getting over it,” Cody argues against the promise of closure, for something far messier (and more human). Also discussed: Cody’s articles on mourning in America, the “magic” of AI, and techno-spiritualism; and How to Change a Memory by Steve Ramirez.
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| 1:04.7 | Welcome back to So Your Parents Are Old. Everybody, I am Vanessa Gregoriatis, and I am here this week with Cody |
| 1:12.6 | Del Estrade, who wrote an amazing book called The Grief Cure, which is about the loss of his |
| 1:18.6 | mother and what I believe is called profound grief. At least I've heard that applied to myself |
| 1:25.0 | since it's eight years since my dad passed and I sort of feel like |
| 1:29.8 | it was yesterday. But I bet he's going to tell us that it's a little different because he spent |
| 1:35.6 | a lot of time investigating grief, why it lasts, how you get over it, the roller coaster of it, |
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