Premation comes over from abroad: ‘Ridiculous that you only start saying sweet words when the person is dead in the coffin’

Why wait until someone is dead to tell you how much they meant to you? That question occupied many viewers of Over Mijn Lijk on Sunday evening, after the terminally ill Madelief (26) organized her own farewell. During her so-called premation – a living funeral – she heard the words that normally only sound when someone is no longer there.

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