The Tribute Series: Shane Bitney

Published: Sept. 7, 2012, midnight

What would you do if the love of your life—whom you spent the last six years with day in and day out—suddenly died with no warning? If you were committed to each other and intended one day to legally marry, but those rights were taken away? If you had no legal rights to see your partner or get any information at the hospital as he was taking his final breath? Or, if you were forbidden to even attend his funeral for fear you would be shot by his parents? That is just a sampling of what Shane Bitney Crone endured when his beloved, Tom Bridegroom, accidentally fell off a roof while taking photographs over a year ago at the age of 29. CLICK TO VIEW HIS VIDEO THAT HAS GAINED THE ATTENTION OF MILLIONS: http://youtu.be/pR9gyloyOjM