When you are truly in love with someone, you want to live with that person as long as possible. But what if you are terminally ill? Zoë (27) from the TV program Over Mijn Lijk is currently in the final phase of her life. At the beginning of the season she is single and has little expectations of love. However, she still falls in love on the threshold. Aww!
Zoë in Over My Corpse
In the popular, moving TV program Over My Corpse we see, among others, 27-year-old Zoë. A strong young woman, but with a nasty rotten disease. She has bone cancer and unfortunately it is incurable. That’s why she still enjoys life with her friends and family as much as possible. For example, in the third episode we already saw how Zoë held a big party with all her loved ones. Here she also gave a moving farewell speech, which brought tears to the eyes of many viewers at the time. Including through special messages such as: “Don’t postpone anything you want and what is within your power.” She encourages everyone to always follow their own dreams. “Follow the path of your own dreams and not other people’s expectations,” says Zoë.
Unfortunately, her own life is diminishing. Especially when she receives an inhibitor for the spread of the cancer. This medicine also has a number of side effects. At one point she ends up in the emergency room due to internal bleeding. These were caused by the inhibitor. As a result, she decides to stop taking the medicine, but this makes her life uncertain.
Enjoying little things
Actually, we are now waiting for her end. The doctors cannot do anything else for her. Presenter Tim Hofman immediately confronts her with the facts in the fifth episode of Over My Corpse, when he visits her at her mother’s house. “You are very sick,” he says. “And you don’t have that long either.” At that time it is January 2023 and Zoë hopes to make it to summer. Only she realizes that this probably won’t work. That’s why she learns to enjoy the little things. She always had difficulty with this, she says. Then her psychiatrist asks what she actually wants to do, to which she responds: “I’ll wait until I feel better.” Even though she is not expected to feel better anymore. She needs to learn to think smaller. “If I want to go away for a weekend with friends, I think of Paris, Maastricht, Valkenburg, Antwerp,” she says. “Then my psychiatrist said: you also have very nice hotels in Noordwijk and Amsterdam.”
As a young lady of 27, ‘thinking small’ is sometimes indeed not easy. Especially when you see all kinds of photos of friends in cool European cities on social media. It’s not easy, but Zoë really tries. She certainly tries to enjoy little things more and let friends into her sick life. “It’s just really hard because I don’t want to think of myself as a sick person,” she explains. In any case, she promises Tim that he can always come by: “No matter what state I am in.”
In love again
So Zoë is not doing well at the moment, but fortunately she also has good news. She has fallen in love again and she certainly finds that special. “That you just find someone in the last phase of your life,” she says. It concerns Michael, whom she has known since she was fifteen. They are also in the same group of friends. However, there has always been a certain tension among them. “That has actually only now come to fruition,” she says. It makes her very happy: “I never expected that I would fall in love at this stage of my life.” And especially that someone can have so much patience. “He really has to swallow a lot,” she realizes. He misses parties and birthdays because of her. “He drops everything to be with me. I think that is very special for someone my age,” says Zoë.
Lots of support
They have been together for six months now and of course it is sometimes difficult for Michael. Especially when he sees how much pain his girlfriend is in. “But we also try to get as much positivity as possible together,” he says. He also motivates her well when she is feeling down. For example, she regularly becomes insecure because her face has become fatter due to the inhibitor. “He really supports me in that. That’s very nice.” Michael also believes in miracles, just like Zoë’s father. Something that can of course only help her. “You can of course sit in a corner and be sad, but that has no positive effect for her,” says Michael. Zoë is really in love, including the proverbial butterflies in her stomach. “That lights up everything,” she says. “That’s also a kind of medicine.”
Zoe fell in love in the last phase of her life ❤️ How fantastic for her, and how lucky she and her boyfriend are together ❤️ #over my dead body
— Esther Hollenberg (@ehollenberg) February 6, 2024
How wonderful that Zoë has fallen in love at this stage of her life and that that love has been reciprocated. #over my dead body #oml
— Marjolijn van de Gender (@marjolijnvdg) February 6, 2024
Butterflies in the stomach that relieve everything. So beautiful. So special. #Zoe #in love #over my dead body pic.twitter.com/incL0WfyUO
— Vincent Brouwer 🏍🏀🚘 (@vincentbrouwer) February 6, 2024
