The family of Tanya Pardazi is grieving over her shocking death at 21. The TikTok celebrity succumbed to injuries sustained from the skydiving accident that is still under an investigation.
TikTok celebrity Tanya Pardazi was mourned in a funeral and on social media this week after the tragic death in a terrible accident.
Where did Tanya Pardazi die?
This 21-year-old Canadian influencer, who was also an University of Toronto philosophy student passed away on August. 27 due to injuries sustained during a skydiving leap when her parachute swung open too late. The body is laid to rest in a funeral ceremony held in Richmond Hill, Ontario on September. 2.
“What Tanya did during 21 years, I think many people fail to fulfill even in 80 or 90 years,” one of the guests stated in a eulogy he delivered at the funeral. It was streamed live from Elgin Mills Funeral Centre. Elgin Mills Funeral Centre, according to the website the National Post, who could not be able to determine the speaker’s name.
The news reported that many participants were dressed in white, were seated in front of a white casket and watched a video montage of pictures from the life of Pardazi while Sarah McLachlan‘s “Angel” played in the background. The speaker was later reading the list of 18 things that the TikTok singer said she learned by the time she turned 18 including, “Don’t take yourself so seriously, nothing matters in the grand scheme anyway.”
Pardazi She fell to her death after completing her very first solo dive at Skydive Toronto, her childhood friend Melody Ozgoli said to CTV News Toronto on August. 31.
In a post in a post on Facebook on August. 29 Skydive Toronto said that on August. 27 “a skydiving student aged 21 succumbed to fatal injuries obtained from an emergency situation.” The company stated that it was because the skydiver “released a quickly rotating main parachute at a low altitude without the time/altitude required for the reserve parachute to inflate.”
Student “was a welcomed recent addition to the skydiving community and will be missed amongst the student’s new friends and fellow jumpers of Skydive Toronto Inc,” Skydive Toronto Inc. said and added “The team at Skydive Toronto is currently working with the South Simcoe Police on their investigation.”
In their on-line statement the police department stated that they are “investigating after a fatal skydiving incident in the Town of Innisfil.” They stated, “A woman was critically injured after jumping from a plane operating out of a local skydiving club. She was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced deceased.”
E! News has been in contact to officers from the Police Department as well as Skydive Toronto, both of which did not mention names in their statement.
Ozgoli said to CTV News Toronto that Pardazi “had an interest in anything that was new and adventurous. Life was too boring for her and she was always trying to do something adventurous.” Ozgoli also said she believed that Pardazi “really lived every second to the fullest. This is the biggest shock to us. It’s very hard to process. It’s been a couple of days, but we still don’t even believe it.”
Kimia Sepanlou who is a acquaintance of Pardazi who made a an obituary to the late singer via her Instagram. “I’m at a loss for words (ironic because you were always good at putting what I was thinking into words) but I’ll try my best to say my piece,” she wrote. “I’m mad. Mad at you for leaving me with no one to call randomly and talk about my crazy coincidences to, but also mad at the world for taking someone as intelligent and kind hearted as you away from us.”
She added, “I’m heartbroken, because we never got to go on our Bali trip together like we always talked about, but also at an eerie ease knowing that you finally got your answer as to what an afterlife looks like. You were one in a million and went out like a one in a million would. You were loved by many. You’ll be missed by many. Wait for me on the other side.”
Pardazi was mourned on social media by fans as well as the University of Toronto Scarborough cheerleading team.
“Forever part of our team and in our hearts,” was the message in their Instagram account. “Tanya Pardazi was one in a million.”
