Posted on 05/07/2005 7:03:09 AM PDT by veronica
MIAMI - The family of a severely brain-damaged woman who died after her feeding tube was removed in March said Friday they still have not been told where her remains will be laid to rest.
Terri Schiavo's parents and siblings, who waged a lengthy court battle over her end-of-life wishes, said on Fox's "Hannity & Colmes" show that her husband is keeping her remains from them.
"They were supposed to tell us, and we still have not heard from ... Michael Schiavo where Terri's been laid," said Terri Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler. "Our family expected this. Michael has disobeyed court orders throughout the ordeal and continues to do so today."
Michael Schiavo is under court order to notify the Schindlers of his plans for a memorial service. He has had his wife cremated and has said her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania.
George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, did not immediately return a call Friday night seeking comment.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She suffered brain damage in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop.
She left no written instructions in the event she became disabled, and her husband said she never would have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery.
The Schindlers, however, doubted she had any such end-of-life wishes. They maintained she would benefit from rehabilitation, despite most doctors saying her condition was irreversible
So, to use your assumption, which do you think we think you are?
Life is uncertain.
Just because you don't know who might end up caring for a disabled family member it doesn't mean that you can just off 'em.
Your 'logic' is really quite odd.
'Quality of life': another name for the slippery slope into barbarism.
Only if they are murderers.
I see you are still causing trouble with your common sense discussion. ;-)
You are certainly distorting how I feel. I don't want extraordinary means to keep me alive. But Terri Schiavo was only on a feeding tube. They had to starve her to kill her and it took 15 days for her to die. That's a lot different than unplugging someone from life support and they die in an hour or a day. Surely you can see the difference between extraordinary means and a Terri Schiavo feeding tube. My living will says don't remove my feeding tube.
Don't count on it.
ROTFL! Let's hear those established facts (not innuendo and supposition).
Terri Schiavo, 41, died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She suffered brain damage in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop.
Terri Just didn't die, she was killed!
And neither did Terri's parents and siblings.
Even if you are in a PVS?
Many who have life support withdrawn linger for days -- or a week or more. It is not as cut and dried as you make it out to be.
I hear you on that one.
I see the ghouls have been busy. Did I sleep all the way through to Halloween?
Yup! When I get a lot older than maybe at the age of 80 I wouldn't want to be kept on with a feeding tube. Also it depends on your family. If you have a loving and supportive family , then you specify (in living will) not to pull the feeding tube.
And Terri had a loving and supportive family. Unfortunately a demon dog husband-in-name-only got between them
The only ghouls I see are the ones who keep rehashing this case over and over again, as if to expect a different outcome. That's ghoulish.
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While I don't think it's as easy as you said...I respect your civil answer.
would YOU let it go if it were YOUR daughter?????Should WE let it go, when someone else has been treated injustly at the hands of another??? I think NOT!!!!!!!!!!
Americans are quite good at remembering temporary defeats for all that is right and good:
"Remember the Alamo!"
"Remember the Maine!"
"Remember Pearl Harbor!"
"Never forget 9-11!"
"The Holocaust? Never again!"
"Terri Schiavo? Never again..."
You forgot to include the above along with the part of the reply you quoted. Terri's family were even closer witnesses to Terri's tremendous will to live.
But for the sake of argument suppose NO ONE knew what Terri wanted, we should STARVE and DEHYDRATE her to death instead of allowing her to live and erring on the side of life??????
Did you happen to catch Pope John's teaching on this issue?
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