Episode
The Democracy of Grief
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- Talk Cocktail
- Published
- Jun 4, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1922
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Summary
Grief is the one experience nobody escapes, nobody schedules, and nobody gets to opt out of. In that sense it's almost democratic — ruthlessly, mercilessly so. I’m joined by Danielle Crittenden , long time journalist and the author of Dispatches from Grief . Danielle lost her daughter Miranda suddenly in 2024. She writes about it the way a foreign correspondent files from a war zone — dispatches from a country we think we're prepared for, until we arrive. Get full access to Talk Cocktail Podcast at jeffschechtman.substack.com/subscribe