PAUL: In this morning, this powerful, moving speech from Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg to Berkeley graduates.</s>BLACKWELL: Sandberg's husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly last May, while they were on vacation in Mexico. She spoke for the first time about her husband's death, her grief, and resilience.</s>SANDBERG: One year and 13 days ago, I lost my husband, Dave. His death was sudden and unexpected. We were in Mexico, celebrating a friend's 50th birthday party. I took a nap, he went to work out. What followed was the unthinkable. I walked into a gym to find him lying on the floor. I flew home to tell my children that their father was gone. I watched his casket being lowered into the ground. For many months afterwards and at many times since, I was swallowed in the deep fog of grief, what I think of as the void, an emptiness that fills your heart and lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe. Dave's death changed me in very profound ways. I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss, but I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, find the surface, and breathe again.
Sheryl Sandberg Opens Up on Husband's Death