{"id":335491,"date":"2026-04-17T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/let-grief-be-messy-nytimes-writer-talks-to-anderson-cooper-about-the-life-and-death-of-her-daughter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:00:14","slug":"let-grief-be-messy-nytimes-writer-talks-to-anderson-cooper-about-the-life-and-death-of-her-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/let-grief-be-messy-nytimes-writer-talks-to-anderson-cooper-about-the-life-and-death-of-her-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Let grief be messy: NYTimes writer talks to Anderson Cooper about the life and death of her daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/sv_FY7QHKEw\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Let grief be messy: NYTimes writer talks to Anderson Cooper about the life and death of her daughter\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sv_FY7QHKEw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>New York Times writer and editor Sarah Wildman\u2019s daughter Orli was 10 when she was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer. Anderson reached out to her after reading her remarkable essays about Orli&#8217;s life and death. Their conversation is thought-provoking and deeply moving.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Sarah Wildman on her daughter Orli\u2019s cancer diagnosis<br \/>\n3:31 Why Orli wanted to talk about death<br \/>\n7:16 Why doctors didn\u2019t say Orli was going to die<br \/>\n8:53 \u201cYou\u2019re not going to get to make the memories you hoped for\u201d<br \/>\n11:38 Is there an alternative to relentless hope?<br \/>\n13:05 Why Sarah still texts Orli\u2019s phone<br \/>\n14:07 What the day of Orli\u2019s death was like<br \/>\n18:38 What grief has been like since Orli\u2019s death<br \/>\n20:29 Why living with grief can feel like living half a life<br \/>\n24:10 Why death in the West is often treated as a failure<br \/>\n27:42 The ways Sarah still feels Orli\u2019s presence<br \/>\n31:09 The message one of Orli\u2019s friends shared<br \/>\n35:43 Why Sarah doesn\u2019t want to let go of her grief<\/p>\n<p>For more of \u201cAll There Is with Anderson Cooper\u201d visit https:\/\/cnn.com\/allthereis<\/p>\n<p>#Grief #AndersonCooper #NYTimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times writer and editor Sarah Wildman\u2019s daughter Orli was 10 when she was diagnosed with a rare liver cancer. Anderson reached out to her after reading her remarkable essays about Orli&#8217;s life and death. Their conversation is thought-provoking and deeply moving. 0:00 Sarah Wildman on her daughter Orli\u2019s cancer diagnosis 3:31 Why Orli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[129449,129165,129170],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-335491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-times","tag-writer","tag-york"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Let grief be messy: NYTimes writer talks to Anderson Cooper about the life and death of her daughter | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Let grief be messy: NYTimes writer talks to Anderson Cooper about the life and death of her daughter for free, here on News ISC. 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