The death is announced already a year ago. JOOP BRAAKHEKKE (75) was realist enough to know that pancreatic cancer, after his heart surgery, a new heavy opponent would be. He went to fight, but had that Thursday came to a halt. The colorful tv chef died in the presence of Wim. Private BARBARA PLUGGE, by the family as the first to be informed, made the fight close…
The cancer would JOOP BRAAKHEKKE ‘t get. Life was too beautiful to come to say hello, he told recently to Private . But that intention was not fulfilled. Thursday morning, he died, at home. “His body has specified,” said his cousin. Joop is 75 years old and leaves, besides Wim, also are elderly, 106-year-old mother, LOEK.
Joe realized that his end was approaching, and philosophized all about saying goodbye and the funeral.
“I want to be very intimate. I would like to be buried on the natuurbegraafplaats in Hoog Soeren, where EELKE DE JONG is located", he said recently.
Included
The tv chef was when, for the umpteenth time, included in the VU in Amsterdam. For an endoscopy this time, because his stomach didn’t want more'. “I have here a knipkaart”, he joked. But there was also intense sorrow: in the room next to him died this summer, his dear friend JOKE GERRETSEN, even to the effects of pancreatic cancer. Joop had already fourteen days not to eat and drink. Weakened and reddish from the fever, he was on the infusions. Waiting for healing that doesn’t come…
Last year was with him pancreatic cancer found. The 'meanest' cancer that there is, he said. He was then a five-hour surgery, in which not only a two centimeter big tumor was removed, but also his gallbladder, duodenum and piece of stomach. The heavy surgery seemed successful, and gave him hope again. The core was rigorously addressed!
Joop was so relieved that he himself last summer, a new sailing ship gift did, while the old are for sale in the port. But the joy was of short duration. The cancer came back, there were metastases found in the liver, lungs and stomach. In the early autumn was Joop critically ill. The food in the stomach would not go through.
a week and a Half lay Joop in the VU, where he is feeding. When he is not better went feel he let himself to the erasmus hospital in Rotterdam drive, where oncologist, PROF. CASPER VAN EYCK stent in his stomach placed. So he could at least 'something' to eat.
he had Earlier in a clinic in the German Durderstadt the very expensive immunotherapy with viral infections undergo. Unfortunately, the effect does not occur immediately.
In the hope of life as long as possible to stretch tried Joop a range of treatments, such as 'hyperthermia' which the body heats up to 43 degrees and as the cancer cells body.
Joop crawled – at the end of the council – to say that also in the role of Klazien uut Zalk and calmed down a maagvliesontsteking with the juice of the raw potato from the juicer , supplemented with carrot and orange juice.
The complications were so disheartening, but I continued to fight like a lion. It has not any income.
under
If a Don Quixote, fighting against the windmills, he went under.
Joop died at home, battle-weary, in the lap of his beloved. At last he could not even talk and kept his body more and more moisture retention. The final battle had begun. With the kookgek from Amsterdam, is a unique human being gone.
A centipede, that if the cancer had been destroyed, it is still a long was uitgeraasd.
Joop wrote books, was art lover and theaterdier, even went with a kookrevue the boards, acted (in Truman Capote , next to HANS CROISET), played the piano and also sang. with The best cook is your mother was still a hit.
After high school, Jo to Paris and Barcelona for a culinary career. In Maastricht, he went to the Hogere Hotelschool.
Bistro 'Le Philosophe' in Apeldoorn, the netherlands, opened by WIM SONNEVELD, was his first restaurant. Later followed 'De Kersentuin' and 'Le Garage', the next 'Plush'. In the Ruysdaelstraat was a coming and going of the (international) stars. On Monday dineerde there is the metropolitan elite, among whom HARRY MULISH, CEES NOOTEBOOM and JEROEN HENNEMAN, together with an own table. In the view of course.
Since 1993 Joop for five years at the AVRO is the most popular tv cooking show ever, 'Kookgek on a Trip, that now, by the transmitter, OUR twenty-one weeks in a row is repeated.
It was a bandage on the wound, because it wore still to Joop that he is for the Dutch tv was boiled. That he had not earned?
Are many ideas for a new program were later one by one, omroepbazen abruptly off the table.
Luckily, it was Joop, a versatile man, and he continued life as a big challenge. He was an intellectual lover, devoured books and immersed himself in other cultures, religions and philosophies.
In his heart was Joop a Zenboeddhist. He said once: “We live here in a maelstrom. Actually, you would, every day just need to remember that we all have a time to die. That certainty is not to question. But you ask meanwhile, also wondering where the life again was meant to serve. See the sun break through, the spring continue, the nature shooting. Buddhism has given me, in the spirit, very far. I am the life more and more begin to understand."
On his buddhist way of life he said: “It’s not about profit, but what you do. The material is irrelevant."
Heavy
Joop a few months ago, still in panic of fear of his impending death, the road to it was so heavy that he is not only wanted to pass, eventually, said he is still in the inevitable.
“In revolt has no meaning”, pondering about he last October. “I can’t be more excited about. I can only really find that I no longer can do. The course of things, how it goes in this life, I will not be able to enjoy it."
Unacceptable for Joop was the possibility that his mother would survive.
On August 31, was Loek Braakhekke, in her young years a celebrated operettester, and brilliant in 'La Bohème' and 'Who Bat', honderdenzés years. No deeper love between mother and son than between this couple. Every weekend he was with her in Hindeloopen. Their lives were intertwined.
They are more heavens than he? No way.
How sick Joop also was a birthday party had to be there!
Her cottage in Hindeloopen was decorated, there was cake and champagne, and the mayor, HAYO PHARMACIST came to the old address.
Mother Braakhekke is dementerend, the reason of the festivities eluded her.
Joop, that day: “What does it matter? She gets attention and that’s what it’s for. That I might survive SHOULD not happen. Just thinking about it, I am emotionally crazy. I find it very, very hard that life is finite, and that someone you love, at a given moment, not more. With my father I had less trouble with it, I was forty and was in the middle in the life."
Joop last wish is not fulfilled. His mother will take him to bury.
The nightmare was reality, but the tv chef has, in any case, do not need experience.
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