Posted on 06/20/2005 8:40:58 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Terri Schiavo's husband buried her cremated remains in a Clearwater cemetery Monday, inscribing on her bronze grave marker that ``I kept my promise.''
David Gibbs, an attorney for the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, said inscribing the marker that way was a nasty political statement by Michael Schiavo, who held the service and burial Monday before telling her family.
``Obviously, that's a real shot and another unkind act toward a grieving mom and dad,'' Gibbs said.
After earlier announcing plans to bury his wife's ashes in their native Pennsylvania, Michael Schiavo instead interred them at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater, near Tampa, his attorney, George Felos, said in a short news release Monday.
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Are you saying that FReepers with missing teeth practice poor dental hygiene? Or are you saying it was more important to risk continued bouts with aspiration pneumonia?
You are aware that Terri could not swallow and suffered several episodes of aspiration pneumonia.
Well, lookey there....you pulled it off.
If I close my eyes and just listen....sounds alot like what I used to hear about pro-life people outside abortion clinics.....my, how times have changed.
If this is so bad for my side.....why aren't the Democrats talking about it everyday? If it makes Republicans look so bad, why aren't the Democrats running commercials against us?
That was a good post and I happen to agree that the entire gravestone is a bit tacky in some ways.
I don't like the "I" any better than you do.
In a different circumstance it might have been nice the way the dates were worded.
If he had been a loving devoted husband, the way that was phrased would have been very affectionate.
I'm not a Michael Schiavo cheerleader at all. The man is a jerk.
My point was that you guys had a massive, group hissy fit with just about every poster saying they were crying because he was going to bury her in Pennslyvania instead of near her parents.
Now that he has, there is NO acknowledgment that this is what the parents wanted.
That's hypocritical in my opinion. It shows a tenacity of hate that has made many lose all perspective and rationality.
A strong offense makes for a good defense, and thats what the Culture of Death hates to deal with : Life standing up for itself.
Im sorry Peach, but I do not support some of the things you are saying.
I would never suggest that a poster stay off a thread.
I am only stating that posses should not be called if indeed they are, and that attacks are not necessary. Agree to disagree, as individuals. I believe in group support; not group attack. There is a difference. It seems as though I've seen, in a lonnnnng time of observing, pinged groups attacking support groups.
Terri: (then, either to show off(?) or wanting to perform well, she leans further forward toward the doctor, looks straight at him and opens her eyes as WIDE AS SHE CAN. Note the WRINKLES ACROSS HER FOREHEAD caused by her also RAISING HER EYEBROWS as high as possible )
The autopsy not only said her brain was deteriorated to the point that she wouldn't be able to react like this, but that she was blind and couldn't respond to any visual stiumuli at all. Fascinating.
But keep misrepresenting what I said. It says everything about you.
Your post is a classic example of the old adage, "There are none so blind as those who would not see."
I guess you didn't get the memo. They have said they intend to do just that in the '06 elections.
Michael Schiavo, what a POS -- gag, gag
So you are contending that the autopsy never said that she was blind, but that it was misreported as such by all of the media outlets? And that she was in fact able to see and process visual stimuli? I'm not saying that's not possible - I just want to understand your position here.
Oh, excuse me; I thought this was YOUR post:
Maybe we need a few threads where the posse isn't allowed...where one can converse with compassion for life and w/out attack.
I am only stating that posses should not be called if indeed they are
They aren't; that's only a dream in a very empty mind.
DOn't be sorry. You're entitled to your opinion. Although I wish you'd stop with the fonts :-)
But people who DID have cognitive abilities were dying in that Hospice. And their last days were not pleasant. They could not be wheeled around in the gardens and were kept alive all night by bullhorns.
They had carnival jugglers there, FGS.
And if you think that Randall Terry is a good representative for the pro life movement, you're naive. He's not well liked even WITHIN the movement.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
You are. Sensible people aren't.
Other than a couple of odd characters that, of course, the media had an interest in focusing on, the folks that were in front of the hospice were a cross-section of America.
And right now, you are capitalizing on the media's misrepresentation of what happened there.
So, and I ask this with all due respect : does this mean that because he gave in to their demand (finally!) that the rest of us are supposed to go "okay! He loved her after all...we'll forget everything that happened before?"
Its not an apology if he is stabbing you while mincing the words through his teeth...which is exactly what that tombstone represents.
No. I'm telling you what all my Baptist friends down here in South Carolina are saying.
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