My version...
Posted on 06/21/2005 1:44:12 PM PDT by LouAvul
The burial of Terri Schiavo's cremated remains didn't bring an end to the acrimony between her husband and her family.
Michael Schiavo angered his late wife's family Monday by not notifying them about the burial beforehand
Still, her parents welcomed the news until they found that a graveside plaque reads "I kept my promise," reports Gordon Byrd of CBS radio affiliate WHNZ.
Michael Schiavo — who said he promised his wife he would not keep her alive artificially — also listed Feb. 25, 1990, as the date his wife "Departed this Earth."
On that date, Schiavo collapsed and fell into what most doctors said was an irreversible vegetative state.
Schiavo actually died March 31, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed by court order. The grave marker lists that date as when Schiavo was "at peace."
David Gibbs, an attorney for the woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, decried the inscriptions on the marker. "Obviously, that's a real shot and another unkind act toward a grieving mom and dad," Gibbs said.
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It amazes me the number (not a majority, but a significant number) of folks on these threads of what might be termed "culture of death conservatives."
It amazes me that those who whine about a Culture of Death manage to ignore the vast sums spent on the sick and dying in this country. NO society has EVER spent any thing close to the hundreds of billions our spends on health care. Even cases such as TS where there was NO chance of recovery have millions wasted on pretensions and playing God trying to return life to a body of autonomous reflexs.
To speak of this nation, The Greatest in the History of the World, as a Culture of Death not only slanders it but could not be more wrong. It even brings children in from across the world for LIFE saving procedures.
There was NOTHING pro-life in that absurd attempt to continue the wasting of precious resources on TS. The same people foaming at the mouth about TS are the ones who would scream to high heaven about using those wasted resources to maintain life elsewhere. Not only did they show themselves to have no principles but to be outrageous liars used by opportunistic troglydytes.
My version...
Do you not see anything wrong with putting the word "I" on a grave stone when the "I" is not the person in the grave? Tell me is that normal to you? Is that what people do where you come from? That is a sign of sheer self-centeredness and most Michael supporters are just to enamored by him to realize it.
Legalized murder.
Sadly I don't think Michael will ever be found accountable for anything he did to Terri.
Schiavo (Big letters - she's mine not yours (terri's parents)
Teresa Marie
Beloved wife (she's still mine, not yours. not daugher, not sister. She's mine)
Born Dec 2, 1963
Departed this Earth Feb 25, 1990 (But you were too stupid to realize. From this time on she's breathing meat. A plant, as my lawyer called her.)
At peace March 31, 2005 I gave her "peace", and you spent all your time loving a vegetable. Ha. I won. She's dead now. And the law backed me up, and you are left with your pain, after watching her die for 13 days. Oops. Silly me. She "died" back in 1990. We just sort of dried out the husk. Hurts, doesn't it? Good. I hate you. You got in my way, and at the end, if there hadn't been 2 cents left in the account, I would have had her killed just to take her away from you.
I kept my promise. (you and I both know there was no promise, being I remembered it so many years after the fact. But hey, it sounds so romantic.)
And everytime you visit this gravestone, it will push all this in your face, that Terri is mine, not yours, I controlled her, and when you defied me, I took her away from you. I tortured you in court. And I burnt her body and put her in the ground. Enjoy. Think of me when my book comes out. I know you will.
You said that so VERY well, I still care. Nailed.
And BUMP IT again.
As for the die hard Michael Schiavo fans, I think there are fewer and fewer even among people who might have agreed that Terri should be euthanized. His behavior really turns people off. It's kind of like saying that Michael Jackson really isn't a pedophile because he was found "not guilty" - but we all "know" he is."
As the *blinds* are lifted (something Terri was SPECIFICALLY denied for YEARS,) and more and more sunshine is shed on this atrocity (based solely on seven-year-later *remembered* hearsay,) perped by sicky *hubby* and ONE backwater probate judge, the public will only INCREASINGLY see it all for what it is/was. And the more that information about this abomination is lighted and disseminated, the shriller the people (think Juan Williams or almost any leftist,) that think that it was "OK" to purposefully and *court*-ordered starve and dehydrate a human being to death...ANY human being... will get.
I look forward to Mark Fuhrman's book.
That's pure speculation on your part as to his motive for burying Terri in FL.
There are any number of reasons why he could have done so. And guess what? Many of those reasons might not have a darn thing to do with Terri's parents.
You're quite the drama queen with narrative.
I thought Terri wasn't breathing?
Ever heard of a person who was not breathing for 40 minutes being revived?
Evidence? Who needs evidence these days? Much more fun for some people to believe every bit of conspiracy theory to come down the pike.
The key point was that he buried her remains in Florida, thereby allowing her parents an easy visit to the site."
Bump post #52 FOR ACTION!!!
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