SocietyParents tell Anderson Cooper how their child’s death made them ‘entirely different people’

Journalists Danielle Crittenden and David Frum discuss the unexpected death of their 32-year-old daughter, Miranda, in 2024. She had survived a brain tumor several years earlier but later died from related complications. Speaking with Anderson Cooper, the couple describes the pain of losing a child and the way grief changed their marriage and identities. Danielle says she had never imagined she could experience such pain, while both explain why grief is not a problem to solve.