Jan Rot passed away on Friday 22 April 2022 at the age of 64. Two days later it was AD surprised with two more columns from his hand. Those columns are now available to read. And in his very last column, Jan posthumously talks about his last moments with his wife Daan and their four children.
Jan Rot: ‘I don’t want to experience the last part’
Jan Rot suffered from colon cancer. “I probably won’t just fall over. I don’t want to experience the last part”, Jan pens posthumously in his penultimate column about his choice of euthanasia. “Everything is regulated by law, then I will be helped. And we know that at least a day in advance.”
Farewell Jan Rot
In his very last column Jan shares an intimate moment with his family with the readers, the night before his death. “Thursday is a nice day, full of peace and love. In the evening we take our farewell moment. With six in tears. Their great sorrow is only now really beginning. “Well, I wasn’t that nice after all,” I try to joke again.”
‘Intensely mean’
“And then it’s Friday morning,” he continues. “The doctor will come in three hours. Seeing the children grow up, and making nice romantic trips with Daan, no longer translating so maniacally, but putting energy into the renovation of the house. Performing until I’m eighty, a five-year-old old man, eternally young, yes, so we’re not going to experience that. Intensely mean. But I do not hold a grudge for what is being withheld from me. I feel privileged for what I got. Also this last year. I close my laptop and want to enjoy the morning sun and my family for a while. And then I go, cheerfully. It was a rich life. Farewell!”
Daan Rot
Daan Rot, Jan’s wife, will now take over. Every week her columns can be read in the AD†
Jan Rot translated the musical Matilda. And because his health made him unsure whether he could attend the premiere, he left a special task to his daughter Elvis:
Source: AD