The country’s most original birthday party took place today in Heist-op-den-Berg. Marie-Louise Boogmans was 100 years old and is folded … with her own funeral. Complete with speeches and a coffee table in the funerarium. “She wondered what the people will tell after her death. Why should we not do that while she is still alive?” It was laughing and leaving tears at the same time. “Grandma, what a surprise. Pardon, surprise!”

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