Posted on 04/03/2005 8:53:52 AM PDT by Daisy4
Terri Schiavo autopsy completed Her parents, husband planning separate funeral arrangements Saturday, April 2, 2005 Posted: 1540 GMT (2340 HKT) http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/04/02/schiavo.ap
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- The autopsy of Terri Schiavo has been completed, and the body is ready for release to her husband, who plans to cremate her remains and bury the ashes in an unspecified family plot.
Results from the autopsy, which was completed Friday, will not be released for several weeks, according to the medical examiner's office.
Michael Schiavo has said he hopes the autopsy will settle questions about his wife's medical condition, but experts differ on whether that will happen. He declined to comment Friday.
Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and Michael Schiavo spent Friday planning separate funerals for the 41-year-old woman, who died Thursday -- nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed
Michael Schiavo's family has said he plans to take the cremated remains to Pennsylvania, where Terri Schiavo grew up, but her parents and siblings had wanted to bury her body in Florida so they can visit her grave.
David Gibbs, the Schindlers' attorney, said there have been no further discussions between the two parties about the 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.
Michael Schiavo's brother, Scott Schiavo, had said Thursday that the Schindlers might not be informed of the burial location near Philadelphia because his family did not want to turn it into a media spectacle.
However, Michael Schiavo has been ordered by the court to disclose the location of the burial site to the family and inform them of any memorial service he plans.
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More than likely CBS will be there filming the entire final insult. They want nobody there but the invited.
Do not be surprised to find out Mary Mapes and Dan Rather
handled the entire matter for 60 min.
The whole thing is very creepy. The bottom line is Old Mike never tried to "off" his wife until mal practice suits were settled and CBS was on the hook.........
They just did an atopsy. Why would they need additional locks of hair and ashes? That just doesn't make sense. Are you suggesting that the Coroners office is part of a big conspiracy as well? That he didn't do his job properly, and he somehow "cleansed" the tissue samples he collected and examined?
I've never heard of families fighting over ashes and bits of hair before either. Usually once the service is over, the husband (or wife) and any children go their separate ways and wait for the ashes to come a few days later, then plan an outing to go scatter them where ever. Seldom if ever does it have anything to do with the in-laws. It's not a custom around here to keep ashes or locks of hair, nor is it in 99% of the world.
She was Micheals wife, and just like every other husband and wife in the country, they bury each other, or scatter each others ashes when one of them dies. Any property they had together becomes the husbands or wifes, as does any money they had in the bank.
Where does Mr. Shindler get off thinking any belongs to him? As it is, he wasted plenty through the courts, to the point were there is little left.
What was he going to do if he had won? Her costs were around 80,000 a year, who was going to pay for that? He has no money.
What would you say if your husband or wife died and the in-laws came and wanted her share of everything? I know where I would tell them to go.
I've been trying to figure out what the confines of the law are regarding ashes of a human. Not having much luck though unless they are actually interred in a cemetary.
Greer doesn't feel any heat.
He got what he needed Terri for: A precedent.
It's a bone he's throwing at her family.
Evil. Evil. Evil.
It almost seems like Judge Greer, from the get-go, took an instant disliking of Terri's parents and an instant fascination or attraction or something for Mikey Shiavo. (I don't mean a crush.) After that, Mikey could do not wrong. Am I missing something here?
Someplaces it's illegal to scatter ashes in rivers etc. Check the state laws.
Any dictionary will tell you that facts are true by definition. What is known here is by and large self serving half truths or downright lies told by people with agendas.
Not even a bone, all Michael Schiavo has to do is dump her ashes from an airplane.
From what I have read it appears that it would not show up even if they did.
13 Q Would you draw any conclusions from that
14 how old the ossification was?
15 A You could say that it wasn't real old,
16 because typically, as we mentioned, the bone is a
17 dynamic structure, and it's constantly being
18 remodeled normally. So the body tends to take away
19 extra bone eventually to remodel it to look like
20 normal bone. So typically old bone injuries are
21 remodeled so that eventually they may almost
22 disappear, particularly in young people. In the
23 very young, a fracture you won't even see in three
24 or four years, it will be totally erased.
7 Q Is this compression fracture, then, in
8 common parlance, a broken back?
9 A Yes.
10 Q Is there any way to tell how old that
11 fracture would be?
12 A Well, as I've alluded to, the bone scan
13 gives some suggestion of that.
14 Q More recent rather than less recent?
15 A Correct. Typically in trauma the rule of
16 thumb is that a traumatic fracture is not active on
17 the bone scan after 12 to 18 months.
Oh, my.
Good play on worths.
They're all evil.
Including the bush in Fl.
The only thing your instincts are missing is Judge Greer's absolute agreement with the arguments of George Felos, even to tiny tiny details such as denial of medical treatments for Terri (like denials of swallowing tests, and refusal to allow an eye exam and glasses for her blindness before she was asked by neurologists to "track" objects with her eyes))
A virtual rasputin effect.
One wonders if George Felos has mastered the Vulcan mind meld technique.
I believe cremation laws are by county, not state or federal.
The kindly jurist would reply, "Where does the Constitution address granting the parents a lock of hair?"
Tenth Amendment - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Greer allowed the husband to pull out the feeding tube on a dubious claim (that he remembered only after he collected $1 million lawsuit award) that that is what Terri Schiavo would have wanted.
Is there any rational person who would ever imagine that Terri Schiavo would not have wanted her parents to have a lock of her hair?
The decision to deny her parents a lock of her hair is the ultimate in judicial pettiness and arrogance.
Then I hereby give up my quest to figure them out. Too much info to look through.
Well, one day, all of our ashes (including Michael's) will be scattered on the earth if the earth goes on for very much more time. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust for all of us. When was her cremation dreamed up by Michael? It has certainly not been thought of as a Christian burial except in very recent times I think. I realize some Christians now do it for financial reasons generally, though.
So, are you saying that in 1993, hospital staff dropped her and broke her neck while they were giving her a bath using a hoyer lift?
Her "accident" was in 1990, when her heart stopped and brain died. What is the allegation here, rough treatment at the hospital?
Pinellas County is a hotbed of corruption. Deny it if you like but it is what it is. Having said that, the Schindlers were denied the opportunity to have an independent ME of their choice witness the autopsy. What harm would that have caused if everything was on the up and up? None.
There is the reason why Greer might have objected to giving the Schindlers hair and ashes which could be further tested. If that bothers your sensitivities WRT to MS's assumed innocence, I don't mind.
There's something really twisted and sick at work in this Michael Schiavo. You can claim he did what Terri wanted all you like, but sticking his thumb in the eye of her parents so they won't be able to visit her grave without great effort is inexcusable. One might ask, does he not intend to visit the grave of the woman he loved so desparately for 15 years, that he had her killed to adhere to her wishes?
It's very clear what a sick ---- this guy is and has been all along.
There's something really twisted and sick at work in this Michael Schiavo
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