What's Your Relationship With Grief?

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I knew you originally as this really funny stand-up comedian in New York who I'd seen perform. And then I found out about this much more serious side of your life when you went viral for talking about grief and specifically grief around losing a child. After a while, I started to be more open about what had happened. On the 10th anniversary of his death, I tweeted this thread about what grief is like. It made me aware of this tremendous community of people who have gone through really horrible stuff.

There’s one thing that connects all living beings – an experience so profound yet so common. Today’s guest, Michael Cruz Kayne says it best: “It's gonna happen to you, to the people you love – even to the people you hate. Whether we like it or not, we are going to die. For sure.” Yet despite its inevitability, it can be so hard for us to speak about death and loss. So how can we begin to open up about grief, and show up for others who are experiencing it? Michael is a writer, comedian, and the host of the podcast “A Good Cry”. Michael’s son Fisher died when he was just days old. In this episode, Michael talks about his experience and how talking about his emotions helped him heal, and shares times when humor was -- and wasn’t -- able to capture the ineffable seemingly-endless experience of loss. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts