The husband of the late Kristen Beaton was calm and composed enough to say this at the onset of her funeral: “I’m not sure exactly, I’m not sure now, we’re basically waiting until… until we have Kristen back home.
” This is after he lost his wife to the Nova Scotia Gun Shooting Rampage of April 18-19, where 22 people were killed in the Canadian history’s most outrageous gun shooting murder case. Kristen was one of the many victims who had absolutely no relation to the killer, a total stranger who was on her way to work, her occupation being a worker at the healthcare industry. The gunman was dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounting Police officer, hence the reason for the 12-hour long evasion before his eventual takedown.
Due to the coronavirus, the normal effigies and the mourning cannot take place, no funeral nor a wake for the lost soul.
Nova Scotia, along with the rest of the state of Canada is still under the quarantine lockdown measures, and it forbids any group of over 5 people to gather inside or outside. Her husband decided the funeral would have to wait. He and Kristen had a son between them, and she was pregnant with their unborn baby.
“We’re not rushing it, we’ll do it classy and the best we can with this whole Covid thing we have going on. I mean we won’t have full closure, everything’s different, right? We won’t have full closure until we have something as a family,” he said.
He has reportedly said in an interview he will try to remain strong enough in memory of his wife and his only son Dax, but things will turn out too much to bear in some cases.
“I tell you I absolutely lost it this morning at home, I had been holding it together. He’s got this old cell phone of ours, he said he was going to pick up the phone and call his Mummy,” Beaton said.
He and Kristen had special plans for this week..
“She was pregnant with my unborn baby I know in my heart what it would be like if she was here right now, we had the whole week planned out because I was off too. We were going to get the spare room ready for the baby.
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Kristen’s last wish was for all the healthcare workers to get proper PPE for the coronavirus lockdown and the shortage of necessary medical supplies.
While the tributes have poured in for the victims of the massacre, it is Beaton’s plea for what he said was his wife’s dying wish that has touched a nerve across the country.
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