John de Bever is not allowed to sing on the funeral of Johan Derksen, who will again tap the average life expectancy for men in four years. “I forbidden him to sing there.”
It is the oldest TV star we have in our country: 76-year-old Johan Derksen. At that age you will of course not escape thinking about the end and he has already made a striking choice for his funeral: his good friend John de Bever is not allowed to sing. Not a folk festival with his coffin.
Graveyard
Johan says that he has refused an invitation of the program De Kist. “Do you know why I didn’t want it? That was two years ago or so and that man wanted to drive in a small car and the coffin on the roof. I don’t feel like it at all. Then everyone is cheering in my street when there is a box at the door!”
Colleague Wilfred Genee: “Do death come too close or does that not play?”
Johan: “No, no, no. Oh, no, I am not afraid of it at all. I always say:” Just bring myself to the other side of the street. ” There you have the cemetery. “
To read aloud
Wilfred wonders what the wishes of Johan are. “Do you not want us to read something or say anything?”
Johan: “No, and I have forbidden John de Bever to sing there.”
René van der Gijp: “That others come with that entire motorcycle club of course!”
This is about his good friend Henk Kuipers, a motorcycle club boss who is a prison sentence. Krukgast Thomas van Groningen: “But can they come at all, Johan?”
“Are you coming?”
Wilfred has no idea if that man can come. “Yes, that’s the question, yes.”
Johan: “But you’ll come, don’t you? Otherwise I will be alone there!”
Wilfred: “No, let’s not think about that, let’s keep it fun.”