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A "child of the community" who was full of life. That's how Kaylee Poonan is being remembered.
Loved ones said their final farewell to the teen on Saturday morning at a funeral service held under Hindu rights.
Alicia Boucher has the details.
Transcript
00:00A prayer to guide a soul of Keli Daniela Poonan, who lost her life at a tender age of 17.
00:24Dead ones of the teenager placed pink and white roses in her coffin.
00:28Poonan's cousin, Raquel Amanda, delivered the eulogy.
00:32She described Poonan as a firecracker, whose body was too small to contain her large personality.
00:39She would have been 18 in three weeks, but she lived a flamboyant, sassy, brave, bold,
00:50kind, friendly, I could, the adjectives could go on and on.
00:55If you are around her, you are bound to have a good time.
00:59She could hold a conversation with just about anybody, young and old, and everything in
01:03between.
01:04Keli is said to have been someone who made friends wherever she went, and who loved being
01:10around family.
01:11I know she worried about making her parents proud, personally, I know that.
01:16She would worry about her father's opinion about her, especially, but she always seemed
01:21to know her mummy was her biggest fan.
01:23Keli knocked the wind out of us on Tuesday night, at least that's how I felt.
01:28I choked on my own breath when the word Keli undied in the same sentence.
01:34I never thought I would hear those two words together.
01:37Pandit Atma Maharaj, who knew Keli from birth, reminded those gathered of a scripture on
01:43the fragility of life, describing it as a drop of water on a leaf of lotus.
01:50Keli's death has been the topic of a lot of online discourse, given an ominous Facebook
01:55post just a day before she lost her life, when travelling in a car driven by her boyfriend
02:00that slammed into a utility pole.
02:03But Pandit Maharaj said that type of discourse can cause more harm than good.
02:09Each time you ask unnecessary questions and you go into the network of this whole thing
02:14of social media, it is really exacerbating a situation that is already difficult for
02:20the family.
02:28The body of Keli Poonan was cremated at a shore of peace at Mosquito Creek.
02:33Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
02:39Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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