An ambassador who wanted to be buried in  Niels Julius Lassen, the first Dannish ambassador to At a press conference in Wearing a journalist's jacket, he held an SLR camera with a telephoto lens and ran around to find good angles for his shots. A Lao Dong (Labor) reporter who knew many foreign reporters in The answer was surprising: Lassen was not a reporter. He was the former ambassador of After his four-year term in The years spent in During this time, at a neighborhood near But only few people knew he was the former ambassador of Lassen always brought along his camera anywhere and anytime and it was time for him to live for his photograph passion in Except for long trips around He suffered minor injuries in a few accidents, but he continued to take pictures from the back of a motorbike. Asked by some curious neighbors why he did not go home for his retirement, he said his hometown was very beautiful, but he always missed He took countless photos around Several magazines used his photos but he always refused payment. Lassen also recorded the sounds of daily activities in The former diplomat always wished for a simple but happy family life consisting of little more than dinners with family on weekends and holidays. His wish was fulfilled in But Lassen said his greatest wish was to be buried in Vietnamese people traditionally burn incense as an offering to the deceased. In the last years of his life, he often came to cemeteries near his People near the cemeteries used to think he was joking until he kept asking and showed up with money. Sometimes, he visited Hoang An Pagoda and talked with the head monk. He also asked that his picture be placed in the pagoda after he died. He died in 2006 in Tam, his adopted daughter, then took a flight to She still regrets that she could not bring his body back to “I don’t know whether it is legal to do so. Moreover, I was pregnant with my second child and was unable to do much at the time,” she told Lao Dong newspaper. However, Tam set an altar for Lassen at home and brought his picture to Hoang An Pagoda as his wished. Eight years after he died, his friends, neighbors and former colleagues at the Denmark Embassy still talk about him with love. On the [Lunar] New Year, they hope that he rests in peace. Thanh Nien News |
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