The young are not very informed catholics. Cremation is only allowed for catholics for sufficient reason.
I don't see sufficient reason in this case. To me, it is an unjustified slap in the face of the entire Catholic Church.
A compassionate lawyer might pay himself to respect his opponents' religion.
Freepers alone could have raised the money for a simple catholic funeral and burial and probably would have, and there would have been many others.
I think if the husband had decided not to cremate her and cried "can't afford it", his friends would have come to the rescue financially if it fit their agenda.
I'm Catholic and I don't agree. Cremation is acceptable, look up what the fathers say. You want it to be a slap in the face, because it's Terri Schiavo. It didn't seem to matter before when millions of others have been cremated.
I'm on your side regarding Terri, but my husband is Catholic and so were his parents and he and his brothers had their Mom and Dad cremated after their funeral masses with the approval of their priest. They wanted to have their ashes mixed together and sprinkled into the ocean. A priest who was a family friend accompanied us when it was done.