"Kok has brought people together and created space for everyone"

Marcel Kok: a very kind and special father

The last word is for the son of Wim Kok, Marcel. He thanked all those who made his father's memorial service possible.

"For us, Wim was a very kind and special father, a father who loved his children and grandchildren, he always paid a lot of attention to us."

Marcel Kok describes his father as a man who has worked hard, with great pleasure, his life and who is not easily satisfied with his own performance. "He was modest and sometimes unsure of himself, so I think he would have felt uncomfortable with all the beautiful reflections that were published about him last week."

He tells what the last week of his father was like. .

"I have so much to say," Wim said the day before he arrived at the hospital for an operation at his heart. He saw a lot against the operation; it was like he felt that he was not going to heal anymore. "

After the operation, Kok spent more than 5 weeks in the intensive care unit

" It turned out that it was a competition, even Wim with all his fighting spirit, not could win. "