Posted on 04/02/2005 7:03:33 PM PST by Cableguy
Terri Schiavo's widower has gone into hiding because of the furore over his wife's death and has sought police protection.
Michael Schiavo, 41, is under guard three days after his disabled wife died from dehydration at a Florida hospice.
She had spent 13 days without food or water after a United States judge upheld Mr Schiavo's claim that she would not have wished to continue life in a persistently vegetative state.
"His goal is to find safe housing because of these death threats," said a friend, Alan Shoopak. "It's not over. Unfortunately, it's just beginning."
Mrs Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, who went to the US Supreme Court to block the removal of their daughter's feeding tube, admit that they care little for their son-in-law, but have urged against revenge attacks.
"Our family abhors any violence, or any threats of violence. We ask that all those who support our family be completely kind in their words and deeds towards others," said Mrs Schiavo's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo.
Anger at Mr Schiavo's actions has been fuelled by the revelation that a court order from a county judge, George Greer, who repeatedly refused the Schindlers' pleas to let their daughter live, will allow him to have her cremated and her ashes interred in Pennsylvania. The Schindlers' request for a share of the ashes or even a lock of their daughter's hair has also been refused.
The family see it as the final act in a 12-year campaign of spite by their son-in-law. Other alleged snubs include having his wife's wedding ring melted down to make a ring for himself.
Last week, while his wife's life ebbed away at the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, Mr Schiavo moved into quarters on site, to avoid protesters outside. Some had banners expressing vitriol for Mr Schiavo and Judge Greer. "You are going to hell, murderers," one read. The hospice also received hoax bomb threats last week.
For several days, Mr Schiavo has not returned to the home in Clearwater he shares with his fiancée, Jodi Centonze, and their two children. Friends speculate that they may leave Florida altogether.
The results of a post-mortem examination, which it is believed may shed more light on years-old bone fractures Mrs Schiavo suffered, and the extent of her brain damage, will be published within weeks.
Mr Schiavo's friends and family speak of a man who honoured his wife's wishes and released her from what he perceived to be a life without hope. After cradling her in his arms as she died on Thursday morning, he placed a rose in her hand and kissed her goodbye.
A Mass to celebrate her life will be held on Tuesday.
I hope he won't be able to hide from his own conscience.
They might have tried this angle: "We want to save Michael from the death threats he's sure to receive after killing Terri. Please don't let him remove her feeding tube!"
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Rom 12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Terri is better now, no pains or earthly cares, she is whole with her Savior.
I pray we as a society will recoil from this horror and shut it down whenever ot shows its ugly head again...but I fear, as with abortion, it is only beginning.
I'm sure he'll be able to pay for lots of bodyguards once he gets his TV movie.
I wonder if the Judgenfuhrer is also under police protection ... he's another one who'll need eyes in the back of his head.
BTW, I'm not sure I believe this story. It sounds like something Felos and company would cook up to drum up sympathy for Michael and paint the Schindlers and other Right-to-Life supporters as bad guys.
Isaiah 57:20-21 (NKJV)
20But the wicked are like the troubled sea,
When it cannot rest,
Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21"There is no peace,"
Says my God, "for the wicked."
*
This term being applied to Michael Schiavo makes me want to vomit :-(
I bet he has a living will all drawn up. Problem is when he gets to the other side the power is granted to a judge who sees the heart, and that can't be hidden from Him.
I hope that Michael never gets a moments rest, that he is dogged b what he did for the rest of his life.
Go going Mikey. Try to gin up a little sympathy for the devil.
May he live a thousand years, and every minute of them may he be haunted by Terri.
No kidding. "Widower" is obscene in this case.
I am horrified and offended that ANY taxpayer is paying for the protection of Michael Schaivo's sorry @ss. Seriously, I'm not kidding....
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