Death Happens - An Insiders Guide to Dying!
đź’€Join end of life experts Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley Hospice Social Worker as we explore the ins and outs of dying. Mostly the outs. đź’€In each episodes we will explore hospice, death and dying from taboo to topical and normalize death because DEATH IS NORMAL!
Episodes
February 25, 2025 • 52 mins
Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) welcome you on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
We appreciate you joining us for Season 2 and hope you will subscribe so you will be notified of season 3. We appreciate all efforts to rate, review, and subscribe so others might find us.
Don't forget to check out Penny's book, Influencing Death; Reframing Dying for Better Living most places you get tangible and audio books!
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February 18, 2025 • 66 mins
Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) welcome you on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is author and palliative care chaplain Hank Dunn. Since 1983, Hank Dunn has been ministering to patients at the end of their lives and their families. During that time he has served in a nursing home, hospice programs and a hospital. He has become an expert on the topic of helping patients and families with end-of-life d...
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February 11, 2025 • 74 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is David Ferrugio, creator and host of the wildly successful Dead Talks Podcast. DEAD Talks David Ferrugio engages death a little bit differently. Each new guest shares their experience in a way that shatters the “don’t talk about death” taboo. It's more than a Grief Podcast; it's a conversation about life. Having...
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February 4, 2025 • 64 mins
Penny and Halley talk with Tiana Joy, licensed massage therapist, who shares her journey into massage therapy and hospice care, highlighting the importance of compassionate touch and emotional connections with patients. She discusses her experiences in a children's hospital, the role of massage and aromatherapy in enhancing patient comfort, and the significance of understanding individual patient stories. Tiana also touches on her ...
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January 28, 2025 • 56 mins
Welcome! Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!Â
Our guest is Em aka That Spitfire Nurse. She is an onco-palliative nurse and content creator based out of Houston, TX! She has been a nurse for 6 years now mostly in oncology, but has always had a heart for palliative care and is happy to have found a role that allows her to combine her passion for both! Em enjoys...
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January 21, 2025 • 73 mins
Season 2, Episode 8: Disease progression and self harm judgement
Today’s episode is a deeper dive with just Penny and Halley to discuss diseases that may be considered to have a self harm origin, along with their progression and treatment.Â
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
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January 14, 2025 • 60 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Lisa Yeager. Lisa earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia, Masters in Social Work from San Jose State University and her Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She received her training in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy from Dr...
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January 7, 2025
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is attorney Andrew Schuh. Andrew earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1993. He went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1996. He currently lives in Mount Vernon, WA after having practiced law in Southern California for 20 years. His law practice cove...
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December 31, 2024 • 95 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Susie Singer Carter. Susie is a multi-award-winning filmmaker, writer, director, producer, actor, podcast producer, host, and Caregiver Advocate. She is best known for writing, directing, and producing the 2018 Oscar Qualified short film, My Mom and The Girl starring Valerie Harper in her final performance, wri...
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December 24, 2024 • 45 mins
Today’s episode is a deeper dive into deathbed phenomenon with just Penny and Halley.
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
You can reach us at DeathHappensInsiders@gmail.com, on all places you find podcasts are found. A video option can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@DeathHappensInsiders
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December 17, 2024 • 57 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Penny and Halley interview RN and amazing creator, Andrew White. Andrew has been a bedside nurse for 20 years, the latter 18 years in the adult Intensive Care Unit. He has worked both in direct patient care and in hospital management. In addition to holding a Bachelor’s in Nursing, he also holds a Bachelor’s in Animal Scien...
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December 10, 2024 • 58 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Dr. Samantha Winemaker BSc., MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP. Dr. Winemaker is a graduate of McMaster University Medical School. She has completed residency training in Family Medicine, and fellowship training in Palliative Medicine. She is an associate clinical professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family M...
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December 3, 2024 • 68 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Cody Hufstedler. Cody has worked as an inpatient palliative care chaplain in Denver Colorado since 2013. Since 2023 he has hosted the Dying to Tell You Podcast where he interviews people living with life limiting and terminal illness. He enjoys cooking and eating, and spends lots of time exercising so that he c...
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July 30, 2024 • 56 mins
Welcome to the end of the beginning! Our first season was so much fun. We appreciate you coming along for the ride, and extend so much gratitude for all of our season one guests! We look forward to many more guests and conversations to normalize death. Be sure to rate and review the show, and share it with others so we can all have a better dying and death experience.
You can reach us at DeathHappensInsiders@gmail.com;Â Death Happe...
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July 23, 2024 • 56 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Katrina Spade. Katrina developed the concept of human composting while earning her Master of Architecture from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. She went on to invent a system that transforms the dead into soil and founded Recompose, a company based in Seattle, WA which offers the service to the publ...
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July 16, 2024 • 54 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Dr. Faith Banks. Dr. Banks graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in 1996, and has been practicing veterinary medicine in Toronto, Ontario ever since. She opened Toronto’s first mobile veterinary hospice service in 2012 which now includes a team of 7 veterinarians and 11 hospi...
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July 9, 2024 • 53 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is Celeste Wooten. Celeste has been a Hospice CNA for over 25 years. She also obtained her Associates Degree as a Medical Assistant as well being a CHPNA (Certified Hospice Palliative Nursing Assistant. She also holds certifications as a dementia practitioner, grief coach and an end of life doula. She serves on se...
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July 2, 2024 • 42 mins
Season 1, Episode 8: Spiritual Care: More Than Meets the Eye
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is an amazing multi-tasker in hospice medical records.
Esme is a 35-yr-old mother of one, who came to the U.S. as a child of 8. She has been working in the healthcare system in various ways for nearly ten years, the last 4 in hospice medical records.
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June 25, 2024 • 59 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Our guest is hospice spiritual counselor, Steve Bundi.
Pastor Steve Bundi is a versatile minister whose journey spans diverse roles and continents. His early ministry included stints in Nairobi as a Colporteur with the Bible Society of Kenya, and in Eldoret as an Assistant Chaplain of a regional college. Expanding his hori...
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June 18, 2024 • 49 mins
Thanks for joining Hospice Nurse Penny and Halley (Hospice Social Worker) on the journey to #NormalizeDeath!
Julie McFadden, BSN, RN has been a nurse for 15 years. Julie is an experienced ICU, and now Hospice/Palliative Nurse.
Julie has been featured in Newsweek, USA today, The Atlantic, and several other articles worldwide.
Julie has been passionate about normalizing death through education to the masses using social media and...
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