As a therapist who treats a geriatric population and their families — end-of-life issues are frequently discussed topics. What Kalfel offers is an engaging approach for people to orchestrate the way they want to be remembered. The author encourages readers to take charge of their “grand finale” by becoming their own creative director as he broaches a very difficult subject in an amusing book that is extremely readable and entertaining. No other book documents the many options you can choose to make a final statement that has real meaning.
According to experts, our Cro-Magnon relations were the first hominids to bury their dead. Mungo Man is the world's first evidence of a human ritual burial, while Mungo Lady represents the first known human cremation. Both were discovered in Australia and are about 40,000 years old.