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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, 20204 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, 20202 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....

Rhyena Halpern
Aug 21, 20204 min read
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