 Instead, as he personally stated on a guest appearance on the TV show "To Tell the Truth", he raised money for the project by charging seventy-five cents admission to the monument work area.Ziolkowski continued his work until he died of acute pancreatitis at age 74 at the monument site in 1982.He was buried in an impressive tomb that he had built, with a huge steel plate on which he cut the following words, "Korczak; Storyteller in Stone; May His Remains; Be Left Unknown" at the base of the mountain.