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RESTING PLACE: Ari Behn’s urn has been placed in the Our Savior Cemetery in Oslo. Photo: MATTIS SANDBLAD
On his birthday, Ari Behn was buried in the Our Savior Cemetery in Oslo. Those closest to them were present at the reduction of ballot boxes.
The beloved author, artist and ex-husband of Princess Märtha Louise died on December 25, 2019. He was born on September 30, 1972 and would have turned 48 on Wednesday.
– I can confirm that today there has been a reduction of polls for Ari. It is no accident that today’s date is chosen. It was a private urn reduction with those closest to them present, Geir Håkonsund, a spokesman for the Behn family, told VG.
It was Dagbladet who first mentioned the ceremony.
After the ceremony for those closest to her, Aris’ artist friends approached the grave. Only on the same day did they find out about the reduction of ballot boxes.
– We were going to meet tonight to share memories of his birthday. It is beautiful and special that he has his grave on the same day. Nice in a strange way, says his best friend Per Heimly (48).
Earlier Wednesday, he wrote a tribute to her on Instagram: “Somehow you were never very good at celebrating your own birthdays, you were more concerned with celebrating others.”
FRIENDS: Per Heimly and David Mendoza at the friend’s support grave. Photo: PRIVATE
According to Heimly, Bertrand Besigye and Henry David Mendoza had a small glass of wine, since Heimly and Besigye once founded “the new wine”, the circle of artists in which Ari Behn also participated.
Honored with a toast
– We had to make a little toast to honor him – we were after all new wine, says Per Heimly.
He thinks it’s good to have a grave to go to.
– It’s great that it’s only fifty meters from Henrik Ibsen. The gravestone featuring his name was very “classy,” completely in Ari’s spirit, Heimly says.
In March, Princess Märtha Louise shared her thoughts on the grief following Ari’s death:
“We, in our little family, have gone through, and are still going through, a difficult time after Ari’s death. The hardest thing we have ever been through.”
They were married from 2002 to 2017 and have three children together: Maud Angelica (17), Leah Isadora (15) and Emma Tallulah (12).
– Take time to move on
King Harald has said that it will take time to move on after death:
– It will take a little time. Not a bit either, I think. We have three grandchildren who have lost their father. So it will take time, King Harald said during a state visit to Jordan in March.
Ari’s daughter, Maud Angelica, gave a moving speech during the funeral on January 3.
– It meant so much to me that I was able to get something of value and something nice out of everything horrible. And I felt like I could do it with that speech, use my pain to say something to others, Maud Angelica told NTB when the commemorative exhibition with her father’s art opened in June.
Near the grove of honor
Behn’s final resting place is near the Grove of Honor, where famous Norwegians such as Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Herman Wildenvey, Olaf Bull and Sigurd Hoel are buried.
The Our Savior Cemetery was established in 1808 at Gamle Aker, north of Hammersborg, in central Oslo. Here are 4,500 preservation-worthy funeral monuments that will not be removed after the fixation period.
After 1952, no more burial sites have been established, but as of 2014 it is possible again to obtain an urn grave in the Our Salvador cemetery.
