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Schiavo Family, Husband Spar Over Funeral
Findlaw.com ^ | April 1, 2005 | VICKIE CHACHERE

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; anotherterrithread; creatin; enoughalready; funeral; giveitarest; schiavo; shesaliveinchristjim; shesdeadjim; terripalooza
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To: pollywog

there is NO hell hot enough


21 posted on 04/01/2005 4:24:52 PM PST by kingattax
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To: llama hunter; Kenny Bunkport

I believe Greer is the court appointed guardian.Is that correct?


22 posted on 04/01/2005 4:25:09 PM PST by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon)
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To: smoothsailing
greer appointed himself

How do you like THAT ???

23 posted on 04/01/2005 4:27:28 PM PST by kingattax
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To: kennedy

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.


24 posted on 04/01/2005 4:30:33 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Kenny Bunkport

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.


25 posted on 04/01/2005 4:32:43 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: kingattax
How do you like THAT???

The whole sordid mess,Greer included,is beyond the pale.

26 posted on 04/01/2005 4:42:14 PM PST by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon)
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To: TNdandelion

Exactly. because he is a control freak - a major one.

Control freaks don't get that way overnight - he was that way all along.


27 posted on 04/01/2005 4:47:14 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: dennisw
Ever see his brothers?

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.

28 posted on 04/01/2005 4:52:15 PM PST by Use It Or Lose It
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To: kennedy

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.


29 posted on 04/01/2005 4:53:09 PM PST by DorisCCC
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To: Unam Sanctam
Keep in mind Father Pavone is a Christian Gentleman keeping the good father from really stating anything about this piece of trash. Michael Schiavo's day is coming though absolutely no one can dish out as much evil vile hatred as Michael has and escape unscathed.
30 posted on 04/01/2005 4:56:47 PM PST by Bigfitz (The mind is like a parachute works best when open)
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To: llama hunter

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.


31 posted on 04/01/2005 5:06:03 PM PST by beaver fever
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To: kennedy

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.


32 posted on 04/01/2005 5:23:42 PM PST by sandbar
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To: silverleaf

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.

















33 posted on 04/01/2005 5:28:33 PM PST by Aria
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To: Aria

oops!


34 posted on 04/01/2005 5:29:33 PM PST by Aria
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To: silverleaf
"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."

Really! I have not heard that.

35 posted on 04/01/2005 5:30:27 PM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: silverleaf

"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!


36 posted on 04/01/2005 5:33:03 PM PST by ViLaLuz
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To: kennedy
Gosh...is any of this story a surprise?

Just imagine the story, if children, custody, and alimony, had been involved?

37 posted on 04/01/2005 5:33:54 PM PST by pointsal
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To: Kenny Bunkport

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.


38 posted on 04/01/2005 5:34:16 PM PST by ironmaidenPR2717 (But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days......(2Tim3:1))
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To: sgtbono2002
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.

Yeah, well just wait until he appears on "Celebrity Jeopardy" and they boo him off the stage.

39 posted on 04/01/2005 5:35:50 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: TNdandelion

Well this is his swan song once she is buried he won't have anything else to beat the Schindler's with.


40 posted on 04/01/2005 5:36:28 PM PST by antceecee
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