Tineke de Nooij (83) already knows exactly what her end will look like. If she blows her last breath, she doesn’t want to be buried, but cremated. “With my axis in three different pots.”
The life expectancy for women in our country is on average 83 years and that is precisely the age of Tineke de Nooij. Yet she is still not busy with death, although she thinks aging is a torment. “Because of the physical burden, yes. But to want to die right away, not, “says the presenter determined in the Private.
Pain untenable
Tineke has been suffering from a birth defect all her life: she is crooked on one side of her body and has a lump of foot. “Walking skewed for 83 years has started to take his toll. Especially in the last ten or fifteen years, the pain is untenable. There were times when I was tired of life, “she explains.
Yet she stopped with the painkillers. “I swallowed them, but then I walked around as stoned as a shrimp, I didn’t feel like it. That is why a button has been turned around. My whole way of thinking is again as I know it. What a difference! ”
Again
Those painkillers made her very flat, says Tineke. “Now I have appetite again, fancy a cooked egg, cup of coffee, I don’t know what happens to me.”
She also has some ambition again. “I want to make another cruise with my granddaughters and also back to South Africa, where I lived for a long time. Life can be fun for 95 percent, if you want. “
Three jars
Finally: does Tineke want to be cremated or buried? “Cremated! My axis comes in three jars. One urn is placed at the grave of my husband Peet and his first wife Titia, the second must be scattered at my house in South Africa and the last at the river where Peet and I lived earlier. ”
“The feeling that all of that is arranged gives me a lot of satisfaction, but it is not that far yet. I can last a few years. “