‘Dying is the Opposite of Leaving’: Remembering Andrea Gibson
2/6/202635 min
Is dying really "the opposite of leaving?" Are we "reincarnated in those we love?" Poet Andrea Gibson thought so, and in this moving conversation, Anderson speaks with Andrea's wife Megan Falley, about Andrea's battle with cancer and why she uses the word "alleged" when talking about Andrea's death. For more of “All There Is with Anderson Cooper” visit cnn.com/allthereis.
Host: Anderson Cooper Showrunner: Haley Thomas Producers: Chuck Hadad, Grace Walker, Emily Williams, Madeleine Thompson Associate Producer: Kyra Dahring Video Editor: Eric Zembrzuski Technical Director: Dan Dzula Bookers: Kerry Rubin and Kari Pricher
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First 90 secondsSerena Partridge· Soundbite0:00
Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
Anderson Cooper· Host0:14
That's Serena Partridge, a singer and choir director I met in Minneapolis last week, and like so many people I spoke with there, she talked about the grief she's feeling.
Serena Partridge· Soundbite0:23
Our grief needs our attention. It's a really important part of our human experience, and the more we try to quiet it down and not look at it, I think the more insistent and engrossing it can become.
Anderson Cooper· Host0:38
Hmm.
Serena Partridge· Soundbite0:38
And it can be so scary- Hmm ... to really turn to it. But our grief and our love are, like, the same entity, and if you are not making space for the grief and heartbreak, I think you're also dimming down the love. So it feels really a different kind of urgent to find ways to let our grief move in a held container so we're not gonna be completely undone by it, but we're also not gonna pretend it's not there because the heartbreak is, is really important. And my community deserves my love, which kinda means that my community deserves my grief, too.
Anderson Cooper· Host1:26
How to let grief move in a held