Posted on 04/01/2005 3:52:40 PM PST by kennedy
The medical examiner completed the autopsy of Terri Schiavo on Friday, clearing the way for the release of the body to her husband, who plans to cremate her remains and bury the ashes without telling his in-laws when or where.
Results of the autopsy may not be released for several weeks, the medical examiner's office said. Husband Michael Schiavo hopes the autopsy will settle questions about her medical condition, but experts differ on whether that will happen.
Michael Schiavo and his in-laws spent Friday planning separate funerals for the 41-year-old woman, who died Thursday - 13 days after her feeding tube was removed.
Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have scheduled a funeral Mass for Tuesday in nearby Gulfport. The Mass will be preceded by a gathering for people to express their condolences.
Michael Schiavo's family has said he plans to take the cremated remains to Pennsylvania, where she grew up, but her parents want to bury her body in Florida so her parents and siblings can visit her grave.
Michael Schiavo declined to comment on the autopsy. The body is now ready for release to an unidentified mortuary designated by her husband.
Terri Schiavo had been the center of a long legal battle over whether she would have wanted to be kept alive with the feeding tube for 15 years after suffering a devastating brain injury.
David Gibbs, the Schindlers' attorney, said there have been no further discussions between Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers about their daughter's remains. The Schindlers do not plan to press the issue in court, he said.
"The court has already determined that (Michael Schiavo) will control the burial decisions," Gibbs said.
Outside the Pinellas Park hospice where Terri Schiavo lived for five years, just a few protesters returned Friday for a brief mass as city workers took down barricades used to control the crowd. Media crews from around the country packed up their gear.
Any comments I might make would probably get me banned for profanity.
My thoughts exactly
His evil knows no bounds.
I'd take it to the Supreme court if I were them.
I have never seen such evil in my life!! He is the lowest of low!!
Parents excluded from the funeral? What a jerk. Father Pavone was right about this guy.
You know what the solution here was simple all along - either this situation needed an permanent mediator, and perhaps the court appointed guardian should have been making all decisions all along here, I'm beginning to think neither side here deserved to be making any decisions in respect to Terri, should have been a totally objective third party all along
this is disgusting and sad that the two sides of this tragedy can't even agree on a funeral, and I'll agree, the husband seems to be a prick on all this
I say let the court appointed guardian make all the decisions, he's got to be fairer than the husband
Yeah, I love watching arrogant toads in black robes giving common people the finger.
IMO he should allow the Schindlers to have possession of the body, I think he is being hard assed over this, probably as a result of the Pi**ing contest he and the family embarked on over removal of the feeding tube. Having been called everything from a murderer to a wife beater he has probably made his mind up to do whatever he can to hurt those who have tried to hurt him, figuring they cant say anything worse than they already have so paybacks are hell.
I dont agree with his doing that and its just a guess as to his motives .
Father Pavone was very charitable in saying MS is cruel and heartless. And Felos whined like the devil at having been exposed to the light of truth.
Who is dumb enough to believe anything this lowlife says? His actions prove he's a liar and killer. Ever see his brothers? Same as him.
You know, the whole death scene wherein M.S. pushed Terri's brother out of her room just as she was about to expire, and "caressed" his wive's head under the drooling gaze of that freak Geo. Felos, and now this....I'm beginning to wonder if M.S. killed Terri off simply to get at the Schindlers.
KING SOLOMON!!! Where are you? Time to divide the baby in half.
The parents should just hold a memorial service on their own, I did that for my spouse whose body had been taken by the hospice and was being prepared for cremation. It is the spirt that counts not the flesh, nor the ashes. The ceremony was an appropriate closure.
Title should read "Schindler" family and "piece of excrement" husband
Makes you wonder why Greer didn't take this tact. Your suggestion makes perfect sense.
Not gonna sell many books that way.
Okay, I'll chime in on this one, and I'm actually on the husband's side on this one.
My brother was cremated after his death a few months ago. My sister-in-law has the ashes, and has not determined what she is going to do with them.
The memorial service was done before the cremation, and just a few days after my brother died.
Now, my sister-in-law is going to do something private with the ashes.
My brother knew he was dying, and they did make all of the arrangements beforehand. That's the main difference. My brother was not very religious, but my parents are devout Methodists, and my sister-in-law is a devout Catholic. She did everything the way my brother would have wanted it.
If it were me, I would purchase a grave and headstone and plan a funeral for her without the body. Others have had to do this when their loved ones died tragically in accidents or terror acts and there was nothing to bury.
MS just wants to see them beg so he can tell them "no." Don't give him that pleasure.
There was a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem- Richard Pearse. In 1998. He recommended that Michael Schiavo be replaced. Judge Greer discarded his recommendations and fired him as GAL.
Next case....
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