The 65-year-old Paulusma died on Sunday from the effects of cancer. According to Broadcasting Max he had been ill for some time.
The weatherman chose not to share his illness with the rest of the Netherlands. Something that De Jong thinks is a shame, she says in an interview with Radio1: “The Netherlands is always at its best and at its best when people are sick, he has also deprived himself of that in that way and I find that very unfortunate for it.”
Fat turd
Twittering Netherlands does not agree with the ‘terrible, presumptuous tuthola’/ ‘fucking cunt’/ ‘feeks’/ ‘kwebbeltante/ ‘corpse pecker’/ ‘the absolute pit of humanity’. A few think that she has started walking next to her pumps, others are especially happy that Piet Paulusma no longer has to experience the ‘irritainment’ of the TV critic, prefer to play ‘a big shit on that person’ or encourage her ‘to sink in’.
We agree with Claudia de Breij’s words – 100 percent agree!
I just think it’s so chic of him. Not that the alternative isn’t good, but this one is nice too. Being yourself with dignity until the end can be done in many ways and I find Paulusma’s touchingly strong.
— Claudia de Breij (@claudiadebreij) March 21, 2022
What is also very unfortunate: that people en plein publicly suggest that there is something wrong with someone’s wish to die out of sight of the cameras and microphones. Perhaps that’s the saddest thing of all. https://t.co/959kMzGPJh
— Valdar Berkenbosch (@VBerkenbosch) March 21, 2022
Would have been nicer for the media too; a prolonged illness, the struggle he waged, his family — but no, #pietpaulusma had to keep it all to herself again if necessary instead of giving Angela something too. https://t.co/9bae9rQUUX
— Okke Ornstein (@oornstein) March 21, 2022
Then you sit at the radio with your ‘Henk-Jan Smits look’ splaining someone who has just gone to heaven.
Because Piet Paulusma could also have been just a bit ill, with the audience there and all that. https://t.co/IA5QW8zs27— Kelly Sinke (@KelRebel) March 21, 2022