Posted on 03/27/2005 10:07:36 AM PST by churchillbuff
Michael Schiavo Plans to Cremate Terri
Michael Schiavo has taken steps that will prevent investigators from examining Terri Schiavo's body for evidence of abuse after she dies – a suspicion her family has repeatedly raised as her death grows more imminent.
Schiavo's attorney George Felos told the Washington Post on Friday that Terri will be cremated and buried in a plot owned by Michael's family in Pennsylvania.
Terri's parents had filed a request with the court to block the cremation plans, saying it would violate the religious beliefs of their daughter, who was a practicing a Catholic.
But as with every other motion filed in the case on behalf of Bob and Mary Schindler, the Florida courts have rejected the request.
A 1991 bone scan performed on Terri Schiavo showed unexplained injuries to her vertebrae and legs.
Terri's brother, Bobby Schindler, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" on Thursday that a doctor has testified that she might have been strangled before she was found unconscious in her home in February 1990.
Sorry, did not proofread before posting.
Sure did. He spent over $300,000.00 in this effort.
How about this:
Are you planning on a wrongful death case?
Answer: Well I hope we dont get that far- but I would be remiss if I didn't accept the idea that these people may just get away with killing my child. TO those people, and that means medical staff to the judge to the laywers- I say, in the event that you are successful in killing my child, I will plan a wrongful death suit the likes we have net seen in this country.
If you kill my child I will hire lawyers to get what they can from anyone with their fingerprints on this. I will take no benefit from it. I will accept no money for myself.
And I will tell them to keep going until they get something to stick, or until I die. I will do it because I have tens of thousands of offers to help me fund care and help for Terri- from outraged American citizens. And we are not going to go quietly while an innocent American is starved to death. This may just my daughter to many of you- but this country still belongs to the people- not the judges.
See what I mean?
Of course that is off the top of my head... they have had 15 years to prepare. And they should have. God have mercy upon those poor people.
Did Terri also say that she wanted to be cremated?
The Catholic Church's practice of burial goes back to early Christian days. A strong belief in the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit, as well as the belief in the resurrection of the body, support the Church's continued reverence for the human body. From early Christian days cremation was viewed as a pagan practice and a denial of the doctrine of the Resurrection. That's why cremation was expressly forbidden by the Catholic Church until recent years.In 1963, an Instruction from the Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) lifted the ban on cremation by allowing it in certain circumstances provided that the reasons for choosing cremation were not contrary to Christian belief . However, burial of the body was clearly to be preferred. No allowance was made for any prayer or ritual to be used with the cremated remains. In other words, all services were to be in the presence of the body of the deceased, with cremation allowed only afterwards.
In the revised funeral rites of 1969, Ordo Exsequiarum, mandated by Vatican II, a further step was taken to allow for the Committal Rite to take place at the crematorium or grave site: "Funeral rites are to be granted to those who have chosen cremation, unless there is evidence that their choice was dictated by anti-Christian motives.... LINK
Read carefully, moron:
Schiavo's attorney George Felos told the Washington Post on Friday that Terri will be cremated and buried in a plot owned by Michael's family in Pennsylvania.
Interesting. But, on Resurrection Day everybody will be restored no matter what happened to the remains in the meantime. So I have been told and have no reason to believe otherwise.
Are you a doctor? Or do you just play one on TV?
You can believe what you want. I'm giving you the Catholic perspective.
I see rpavlok has gotten the ZOT :)
Fair question. It's unfortunate that even this question was litigated, but it was.
I was wondering if the photos had somehow been switched.
You can thank the poster in post # 2 on this thread for that. He/she was the one who came up with that particular "trade-off".
;-)
Catholics cant believe that. It doesnt make sense. Ever see what happens to a body over time? You are left with bones if that. Are you saying that the God who can make a resurrection body from bones and raise it from a coffin under 6 feet of dirt cant do the same with dust?
Oh man, this is a clear case of judicial tyranny if you ask me.
"Does anyone know where he works? What he does for a living?"
At 6'6" he probably would make a pretty good bouncer or hitman. Maybe after this is all over he can get a job as Judge Greer's bodyguard.
I'm glad I'm not married to someone whom I would be afraid would get the idea to inject me with insulin while I'm sleeping at night. I wonder if anyone has ever been killed that way? I had never thought of it as a possible murder method until the past few weeks. Those injections don't hurt, ya know. Wouldn't feel a thing.
Right. Hundreds of thousands of human beings were killed at Christmas by a tsunami and people are already saying, "Sue who?!"
Now ... he apparently has an insurance company too,
Yikes. I hate it when that happens. It's the most horrific crunching noise. Of course, it probably hurts worse than it sounds!
Where did you find an "analysis" of the bone scan?
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