Amanda Peet

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821 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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All There Is with Anderson Cooper · Amanda Peet: ‘There’s No Algorithm For Grief’ · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

I was much, much closer with my mom.

In fact, I feel like now looking back, now that it's been a few months, like I feel like my dad definitely got the short end of the stick in terms of my attentiveness.

He was less sensitive and he was more unfazed.

So if I couldn't make it to something, I always thought he was kind of like, yeah, whatever.

Whereas my mom was more like, well, that'll hurt my feelings if you don't come to that.

I was really at a remove.

Like I was watching it from some kind of altitude.

maybe for both things, like the cancer and my dad's death, and also felt like a weird sense of like I'm stealing bases.

Like I had one foot on the cancer and I was trying to like connect with the fact that my dad was dying and honor him by thinking about him, by being present.

And then I was thinking a lot about Tim O'Brien, the writer, The Things They Carried.

It had a huge impact on me, weirdly.

Tim O'Brien had a little girlfriend when he was in like fifth grade and she gets cancer and she dies and his dad takes him to see the body, which is crazy.

And he then starts having these daydreams that he makes up purposely so he can be with her more.

And at one point he says to her, what's it like to be dead?

And she's like, it's not so bad.

It's kind of like being a book on a shelf that nobody's reading.

And that has stuck with me for years.

And that's what I couldn't stop thinking about when I saw the hearse and we kept walking.

No, because I think it's even worse, because it's not even consciousness.

This is when I feel really dark about death.

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