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My Writing
Here are my blogposts. My most current writings can be found here on LinkedIn.
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Rhyena Halpern
Feb 181 min read
Why Do I Need an Advance Care Directive?
The crazy thing I want for every U.S. resident: When you register to vote or get your driver's license or register for college or the...
Rhyena Halpern
Feb 182 min read
Hospice Does Not Equal Death
People equate hospice with death. If you think of the word 'Death,' you are not alone. It never ceases to amaze me that in the 50 years...
Rhyena Halpern
Nov 27, 20231 min read
Is Heartbreaking Grief Optional?
I want to gently, kindly, lovingly say 'Yes'! If your person has the time to prepare and plan and accept dying and you get to hear their...
Rhyena Halpern
Oct 28, 20231 min read
My Dead People Are in My Backyard in Canisters
That is my mom in the big silver urn, my sister in the blue swirly bottle and my father in the gold and blue box. Let me correct myself,...
Rhyena Halpern
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Is Grief Optional? Is it Love with No Place to Go?
When my mom died 5 years ago exactly, at the age of 94, she gave me one last surprise gift. It was liberation from the agonizing,...
Rhyena Halpern
Dec 9, 20212 min read
Liberating Grief
As an End of Life Doula and Hospice Volunteer, I know of so many people who have experienced the loss of a loved one in the most dramatic...
Rhyena Halpern
Aug 21, 20204 min read
How the Culture of Repression Keeps Death A Secret
I have often inadvertently pissed people off by speaking openly and honestly, violating the constraints and strictures of the majority...
Rhyena Halpern
Aug 21, 20202 min read
The Gift of A Good Death
Photo by Public Domain Pictures by Pixaby I saw my hospice patient each Thursday for 13 months. The first time was day after she turned...
Rhyena Halpern
Aug 21, 20202 min read
Top Ten Questions You Need to Answer if You Will Ever Die
This is not a story about my hospice patient with advanced Parkinson’s and how over the year I have seen her every Thursday as a...
Rhyena Halpern
Aug 21, 20204 min read
My Mom’s Wonderful Death
My mom got her wish for death on April 25th, 2017, exactly 5 years and 2 hours after her eldest daughter, one of my two sisters, died....
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