Posted on 03/31/2005 3:02:29 PM PST by hipaatwo
Associated Press Writer
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Terri Schiavo's ashes will be buried in an undisclosed location near Philadelphia so that her immediate family doesn't show up and turn the burial into a media spectacle, a member of the Schiavo family said Thursday.
``If Mike knew they would come in peace, he would have no problem with it,'' Scott Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother, said during an interview at his home.
After an autopsy, Michael Schiavo plans to have his wife's body cremated and her ashes brought to Pennsylvania, where she grew up. Scott Schiavo said the ashes would be buried in a plot left by an aunt and uncle, but the family does not plan on providing the specficic location for the burial - underscoring the bitterness of the dispute.
Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had fought for years to prevent her feeding tube from being removed, and they opposed cremation and wanted her buried in Florida.
Neither Terri Schiavo's parents nor her siblings addressed the issue of her burial in their remarks to reporters in Florida on Thursday. A spiritual adviser to her parents, Paul O'Donnell, said they plan to hold a Roman Catholic Mass without her body sometime next week.
Scott Schiavo said he received a stream of calls Thursday from people denouncing him. On his answering machine was a message from a man from Texas who called the Schiavo family murderers.
Police made visits Thursday to both Scott Schiavo's home and the home of his brother, William, in Philadelphia, as a result of threats to the families.
Scott Schiavo expressed relief that his sister-in-law's ordeal was over, and anger at those who have attacked the Schiavo family.
``This isn't over by a long shot, We're going to get our name right,'' he said. ``The world is going to know who Mike was, they're going to know Mike wasn't a beast.''
At Terri Schiavo's alma mater, Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, workers changed a sign that read ``Terri Schiavo, Class of 1981, We pray that you may live'' to ``We pray that you rest in peace.''
He's much worse than a wife-beater. He's a murderer.
Go back to DU where you belong.
"Was her wedding catholic?"
It had to have been. Catholics are only allowed to be married in a Catholic church, even in mixed marriages.
That doesn't really answer the question ;~D
Yeah, I guess they should have watched the "husband" lock their daughter up in a dark, silent room, deny her basic care, and let him kill her without saying a word.
It would nice if the coward who keeps posting the smart-alick "keywords" on these Terri threads would step forward and take credit for them.
But, I know he/she won't.
Funny, I haven't run into anyone with any knowledge of this case who thinks he's that great.
Absolutely everyone I have talked to thinks Michael is a liar and may have even gotten away with murder. That includes most of my liberal friends too! The MSM pools are not true as far as I can tell, and the backlash from this will not be over for a long time in my opinion.
He was a stalker, too.
For those who support Michael Schiavo, even you have to believe that this is evil.
How is that?
A heart grown arrogant cannot know.
"To demand sainthood of Michael Schiavo, while giving the Schindlers a pass on their abominable conduct, is a tad much."
Nobody is demanding sainthood, just decency.
Shockingly, you are wrong about that. The little coven of the emmaculate St. Michael swallow his side of the story wholeheartedly.
It's the parents of the murdered woman who are the villians in their squalid bizarro world.
Well, they killed BOTH their parents. You decide.
The weirdo would check the mileage on her car and demand to know where she had been if she had driven too far.
No ... MSchiavo is just the type of husband that democrats seem to want to promote.
There really are no words to describe the evil this man has wrought.
A control freakazoid -- a bully of one.
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