![]() All this happened as Giffels was in the midst of an unusual project: building his own coffin with his father, Thomas.ĭeciding to build my own coffin was not a profound let’s-enter-the-theme-of-mortality issue at all. In his latest memoir, Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin and a Measure of Life, Giffels takes his thoughts to a plane that’s achingly universal: He describes the emotional struggle of coping with the deaths of his mother, uncle and best friend in a year’s time, and the stark realization of his own mortality as he watches loved ones age. The associate professor of English at the University of Akron has penned intimate reflections that include The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt and All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, a book chronicling the challenges he faced while restoring the 1913 Tudor in Akron’s Highland Square neighborhood where he, wife Gina and their two children have lived for 20 years. He wrote four episodes of “Beavis and Butt-Head” and co-authored books about the rock band Devo and the rubber industry, but Akron resident David Giffels feels most at home when he gets personal. ![]()
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