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.
there is NO hell hot enough
I believe Greer is the court appointed guardian.Is that correct?
How do you like THAT ???
At least when Terri is cremated or buried, the Schindlers will be done with Michael with respect to the physical person of Terri. I sincerely hope that they will then focus all their energies on figuring out how best to nail him and hopefully the vampire Felos to the wall, and I hope they get top-notch legal help to do it. I also hope they will be able to venue-shop to their advantage. They might not be able to get Michael and Felos for murder, but they might be able to get them for fraud or dereliction of guardianship or something.
See my post above. Felos was instrumental in having Greer dismiss the court-appointed GAL when his (GAL)recommendations went against Miacael.
The GAL (Richard Pearse, do web search) was critical that the court was approving Felos to be paid questionable (unusual) legal fees from Terri's unaudited trust fund. Felos has received over half of Terri's medical trust fund - $400,000 not including recent charges for billable hours for hovering over the death bed.
The GAL was paid $5,000 (from Terri's trust fund) dismissed by the court.
In effect, Terri's trust fund subsidized her euthanasia and gave George Felos a good living for the past 7 years.
The whole sordid mess,Greer included,is beyond the pale.
Exactly. because he is a control freak - a major one.
Control freaks don't get that way overnight - he was that way all along.
Saw them, and saw his girlfriend/fiancee's brother last night for a few minutes on LKL. Oddly enough, he's married to a woman who just happened to be Terri's nurse after her collapse in 1990. Coincidence?
CNN is the official Schiavo/Centonze network.
There are some excellent articles on this case at www.theempirejournal.com. Hopefully, Schiavo, Felos, and Greer will get everything that is coming to them. They deserve to be dehydrated and starved, then cremated.
I concur.
On my only post on this subject I said essentially the same thing as you.
At the first hint of disagreement between the two families a court appointed guardian should have been put in place with full power of attorney and the award for malpractice placed in trust for Terri's care with instructions that the funds be spent on the maximum care and therapy available.
That would have been the honorable and fair solution. If that approach had been followed Terri would be alive and the best that could have been done for her would have been done.
I hope the rest of the world now sees that this man is not the 'loving, adoring husband' he has been portrayed as. For everything I have felt for this man, it has been magnified X 100.
Wonder if there were some kickbacks going on...from Felos to Greer and Schiavo. There's got to be a really good reason for all the one sided rulings.
oops!
Really! I have not heard that.
"The GAL (Richard Pearse, do web search) was critical that the court was approving Felos to be paid questionable (unusual) legal fees from Terri's unaudited trust fund. Felos has received over half of Terri's medical trust fund - $400,000 not including recent charges for billable hours for hovering over the death bed.
The GAL was paid $5,000 (from Terri's trust fund) dismissed by the court.
In effect, Terri's trust fund subsidized her euthanasia and gave George Felos a good living for the past 7 years."
My God!
Just imagine the story, if children, custody, and alimony, had been involved?
I read something the other day that said, in effect, "If we're tired of judges overriding the legislative process, we should stop electing lawyers to congress." Made sense to me.
Yeah, well just wait until he appears on "Celebrity Jeopardy" and they boo him off the stage.
Well this is his swan song once she is buried he won't have anything else to beat the Schindler's with.
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