RaveThe Akron Beacon Journal...a father-son, build-it-yourself journey that became something much more than a simple woodworking project... The project became a labor of love. David was able to bond with his father while confronting his own grief and mortality. It also became the fodder for his third book, Furnishing Eternity... In the five years or so it took to write the book and build the casket, Giffels said, his dad’s health declined. Although the book has a heavy undertone of grief and mortality, there’s a lot of humor mixed in, too ... After cobbling together pieces of pine and oak purchased at Home Depot to create his casket and countless words to fill a book, Giffels is still at a loss to explain the mysteries of death — other than it is inevitable and often unexpected.
