[justshutupandtakeit]

Terri's parents were there and left shortly before the end.
I can't blame the guy for not wanting any from that bunch around though after the hell they have put him through. He turned the cheek so many times he looked like a carosel.

[NYCVirago]

Terri's parents were there and left shortly before the end. I can't blame the guy for not wanting any from that bunch around though after the hell they have put him through. He turned the cheek so many times he looked like a carosel.

Her parents were not allowed to be there at the end, nor were her siblings. Yet his lawyer was. How does that work? His lawyer literally had the siblings thrown out of the hospice room, for goodness sake!

As for turning the cheek, going to court so that he could have her cremated and bury the body where they can't ever visit her isn't exactly the Christian thing to do, to name one example. When did he ever turn the other cheek?

[NYCVirago]

Here's what the New York Daily News, who has been on Michael's side all along, had to say about this. And the paper's editorial on this is hardly unique

Even those who felt themselves on Michael Schiavo's side of the heartbreaking Terri Schiavo story must be repulsed by his stony refusal to let her family be at her bedside when she passed from this life. Such unfathomably meanspirited pettiness reminds us that the Schiavo affair, at the heart of it, was a family matter - a quarrel not between right and left, but between in-laws who despise each other.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/295210p-252746c.html