CONWAY — Organizers who held their first monthly "Death Cafe" at Conway Public Library last week were pleased with the turnout of 20 people who arrived to discuss the sensitive and wide-ranging topic of mortality and to eat cake.
Sean Dunker-Bendigo, 50, and Erin Wright, 52, both of Madison facilitated the event May 31 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Ham Room of the Conway Public Library.
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