“rest in peace daddycould we read on the Facebook page of his daughter as an announcement. I can not believe it. Why is life so unfair! Why you ! You have just become Papuan and dad again, you still had your whole life ahead of you, I love you! We love you ! We will never forget you, rest in peace loving dad!”
Announced dead a few days ago and mourned by his relatives, the Belgian TikTokeur “Ragnar le fou” was to be buried this Sunday, June 11. On his TikTok account, we could even see a video of his coffin with the caption: “I am living the worst days of my life, I love you my love”.
”You have to shock people to make them realize things”
In reality, the Liégeois had simulated his death and had been preparing this “bad taste joke” for a year. And for good reason, in the middle of the funeral, the Liégeois landed aboard a helicopter. Its goal ? “Giving life experience to people” to create the buzz on one side and who would come to his funeral on the other. “I found many people, he told RTBF. I only look at the positive. You have to shock people to make them realize things. I’ve spent the last three days at the lowest point of my life, seeing your own death is hard. I am starting my life from scratch after this story.”
If David Baerten -his real name- staged his death, it is “to teach my family a lesson” with whom he no longer has much contact. “You have to love people when they are alive.” Only his wife was aware from the start as we learn in Touche pas à mon poste where he was invited this Monday evening. Her children, on the other hand, only knew it was a joke a day after news broke of her fake death. “I am convinced of what I have done”.
If many people wonder who will come to his own funeral, Ragnar the Mad seems to live up to his nickname on this experience in view of the debate, criticism (and even death threats against himself and his children) he has received since. : “Social networks have screwed up the human being”; “You don’t play with the feelings of those close to you”; Where are we going ?” This world is as crazy as this Ragnar”. Others, however, cry out to the genius to “laugh at death” or to sort out his relatives and friends. Or would it be all for the buzz? “All that for 3 sausages and 4 merguez sausages” according to Jean-Michel Maire on TPMP.
