Michaela Fink (Author) Michaela Fink (Dr. phil.), born 1973, is a research associate at the Institute of Sociology at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Her work and research focuses on end-of-life care, volunteering and dementia, as well as studies on sub-Saharan Africa. She completed her doctorate in 2011 on the subject of the institutionalisation of dying in hospice work and palliative care, works in various research projects on the topic of voluntary end-of-life care and was involved in the establishment and management of the outpatient children's hospice service in Gießen (2006-2012). Reimer Gronemeyer (Author) Reimer Gronemeyer, born in 1939, holds a Ph.D. in theology and in sociology.

He is a Prof. em. at the Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, honorary senator of the University of Giessen, and has conducted research in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Tansania, Namibia, Botswana, and Malawi. He is the chairperson of the German NGO »Pallium - Research and Aid for Social Projects«.