Sadness Isn’t An Enemy

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply personal episode, Anderson reflects on the suicide of his brother, Carter, and the impact that loss still has on his life today. Anderson is joined by Dr. BJ Miller, a hospice and palliative care physician whose sister, Lisa, died by suicide. BJ brings exceptional wisdom to a difficult conversation and suggests some surprising ways to think about sadness and grief.

This episode contains discussions of suicide. If you or someone you love is struggling, call the national suicide and crisis lifeline at 988.

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0:00.0	This episode contains discussions of suicide.
0:03.4	If you or someone you love is struggling, call the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
0:07.2	at 988.
0:11.7	By my mom's bed, there's a wall of shelves, and it's filled with books and family photographs
0:16.2	and little things that meant a lot to her.
0:18.8	On one shelf, there's three pairs of my father's eye glasses.
0:22.1	She wrapped them together with a white silk ribbon and tucked a note that she'd written
0:26.0	underneath.
0:27.0	It says, I found a lot of these kind of notes.
0:31.5	She knew I would be the one going through her things after she died and left me them
0:35.5	as a kind of guide, like red crumbs to follow through a dark forest.
0:41.3	On another shelf, there's this wooden box.
0:45.9	And inside, there's the Easter egg that my brother painted for her when he was a child.
0:51.4	It's got a castle on it.
0:53.2	And the words love you.
0:56.3	There's also this Victorian desk calendar.
0:58.3	It's got three small windows on it.
1:01.6	One shows the day, the other the month, and then the year.
1:05.0	The date on the calendar is July 22, 1988.
1:09.5	That's the day my brother killed himself in front of her.
1:12.8	She kept this calendar by her bed frozen on that day for the last 31 years of her life.
1:21.2	You've probably heard stories about siblings who are so close that when something happened
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