Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind

Afraid To Talk About Death? This Exhibit Might Change Your Mind

By NEAL CHARNOFF, VPR News

It’s natural that people, for the most part, do not like to talk about death and dying. An audio exhibit in Montpelier this weekend is trying to change that.

The Wake Up To Dying Project gathers stories about death, dying and life, and supplements them with art exhibits and discussion. The traveling exhibit is at Montpelier’s Christ Episcopal Church July 24-26…

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