Now Terri's family starts squabble over her funeral

Post by **lars63** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:07 am

*Lord, just when you think it is going to end :Round 3*

Now Terri's family starts squabble over her funeral

RICHARD LUSCOMBE
IN PINELLAS PARK, FLORIDA

THE legal fight to keep brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive appeared to be over last night, but a new row erupted between her husband and her parents over what will happen to her body after she dies.

Michael Schiavo, who had his wife’s feeding tube removed by court order ten days ago, has made arrangements for her to be cremated and her ashes interred in his family’s plot in Pennsylvania.

But Bob and Mary Schindler want their daughter to have a Roman Catholic funeral service and to be buried near their home in Clearwater, Florida. They are also furious that her husband denied her an Easter communion.

The latest animosity in the bitterly contested right-to-die case emerged as Mrs Schiavo, 41, yesterday entered her ninth full day without food or water at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida. Doctors have said she could survive for up to two weeks.

Michael Schiavo’s lawyer, George Felos, said a judge had already backed the cremation plan. "My client will scrupulously follow the court order," he said. "Her ashes will be interred in the Schiavo family plot in Pennsylvania, where Terri and Michael grew up."

Brother Paul O’Donnell, the Schindlers’ spiritual adviser, said it was a further assault by Mr Schiavo on his wife’s rights as a Catholic after the rejection of her parents’ communion request. "She has been denied the precious body and blood of Christ in violation of her religious freedom," he said.

Mrs Schiavo’s brother, Bobby, said he had advised his parents not to make any further visits to the hospice because of her condition. "My mother has to experience her daughter dying in this fashion," he said. "It’s not painless and it’s not peaceful."

Mr Schiavo, backed by several court judgments during a 12-year legal campaign, has always insisted his wife had once told him she would not want to be kept alive artificially. His doctors say she is in a persistent vegetative state, leaving her awake but unable to swallow or talk.

Her parents say she could improve but that her husband has denied her treatment, despite winning a malpractice pay-out of more than $1 million for her care and rehabilitation in 1992. Mr Schiavo, who has two children with a woman he met ten years ago, has refused to surrender his status as his wife’s legal guardian.

Congress stepped into the row last week when President George Bush signed into law a bill that sent the case for federal court review. But the Schindlers’ efforts to have the feeding tube restored have been thwarted by a succession of state and federal judges and the US Supreme Court.

The latest setback came late on Saturday when the Florida Supreme Court rejected a claim that Mrs Schiavo had started to speak the words "I want to live" when she was told the tube was to come out.

Outside the hospice yesterday, about 30 protesters staged an Easter Sunday service. Three of them, including a pastor from a pro-life Christian group, were arrested as they tried to enter the hospice with bread and wine to administer communion to Mrs Schiavo.

Last night, half a dozen people in wheelchairs got out and lay in the hospice’s driveway, shouting: "We’re not dead yet." Police were loudly heckled, prompting Bobby Schindler to come out and ask protesters to tone down their behaviour. He told them: "You are not speaking for our family."

The Schindlers have pinned their last hopes on Florida’s governor, Jeb Bush, who, they say, has the authority to take Terri into the state’s protection

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:18 am

personally i believe that parents/family should have right over anyone you ever meet

Post by **Bdw3** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:26 am

Husband is not family?

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:27 am

someone you meet

unless its your cousin

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:31 am

terri has some narcissistic parents...and loschunk...ur retarded...her parents have no rights in this area and shouldn't...u freak...

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:33 am

they should have choked her to death on an easter communion host.

i'm not sure what her parents don't understand about "SHE CANT FUCKING SWALLOW"

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:35 am

if they would have had kids, her parents would have wanted custody of them...prolly would want congress to get involved to give the kids to them...sigh...

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:36 am

Freakaloin wrote:terri has some narcissistic parents...and loschunk...ur retarded...her parents have no rights in this area and shouldn't...u freak...

k

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:36 am

obvious ur just a kid...thats why u don't understand...

Post by **lars63** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:37 am

This whole thing has been made into a circus

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:38 am

Freakaloin wrote:obvious ur just a kid...thats why u don't understand...

i understand i shouldnt be an umeployed bum with no more a use in life than a feather paperweight

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:38 am

lars63 wrote:This whole thing has been made into a circus

frankly it would be more interesting for everyone involved if they took her on tour with the circus.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:39 am

good one chunk...but seriously...why would i work when i have 4 kids and my wife makes 180k a year? it would be irresponsible and immoral for me to work...

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:43 am

or do anything but post here ?

christ sake dude, if i was you i would be complaing i cant go to work because i have to look after my kids, not bosting about it... your just a lazy fuck

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:49 am

lol...how do u know what the fuck i do moron? lets see...today, i made breakfast for my kids, went to the high school and played tennis with my daugther and flew a kite with my son, mowed the yard, trimmed two crepe murtles, burned brush, did some transplants, put up a tent for my daughter to sleep in(for fun), washed 3 of my kids and posted on these forums in between. and a moron like u sees me post and u think thats all i got...lol...moron...

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:50 am

oh and i forgot about the easter shit...hide the cande eggs, made hardboiled eggs and colored with kids, gave them their presents...and so on...what did u do today mr family man...lol...

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:51 am

i find this whole blood&body of christ thing to be quite bizarre, if not outright disturbing...

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:53 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:i find this whole blood&body of christ thing to be quite bizarre, if not outright disturbing...

seems almost pagan when you think about it eh?
(actually thats probably where it came from... catholicism is a hodgepoge of various pagan and roman religions)

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:56 am

Freakaloin wrote:lol...how do u know what the fuck i do moron? lets see...today, i made breakfast for my kids, went to the high school and played tennis with my daugther and flew a kite with my son, mowed the yard, trimmed two crepe murtles, burned brush, did some transplants, put up a tent for my daughter to sleep in(for fun), washed 3 of my kids and posted on these forums in between. and a moron like u sees me post and u think thats all i got...lol...moron...

oh shit so now you a OAP ?

Post by **R00k** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:13 am

Dr_Watson wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:i find this whole blood&body of christ thing to be quite bizarre, if not outright disturbing...
seems almost pagan when you think about it eh?
(actually thats probably where it came from... catholicism is a hodgepoge of various pagan and roman religions)

No doubt about that. My last gf was catholic, and almost all of their ceremonies have roots in pagan rituals.

And tbh, the more I hear from these parents, the more they sound like complete fanatics to me to begin with. Depriving her of communion? They gonna puree some crackers and wine and ram it down with the other slush for her breakfast? She's obviously going to hell now that she didn't get that.

As an aside, this kinda disturbs me too:

Congress stepped into the row last week when President George Bush signed into law a bill that sent the case for federal court review. But the Schindlers’ efforts to have the feeding tube restored have been thwarted by a succession of state and federal judges and the US Supreme Court.

Shouldn't that read "President George Bush and several Congressmen tried to thwart repeated rulings by multiple state and federal courts"?
I mean, they don't even have any jurisdiction in legal decisions to begin with. Hell, what do we need separate branches for anyway, right?

Post by **Canidae** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:23 am

[xeno]Julios wrote:i find this whole blood&body of christ thing to be quite bizarre, if not outright disturbing...

You never ate a scab in your life?

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:36 am

Canidae wrote:
[xeno]Julios wrote:i find this whole blood&body of christ thing to be quite bizarre, if not outright disturbing...
You never ate a scab in your life?

sure - just never thought it would affect my spirituality in any way..

for me it was more of a salty textural delight tbh...

Post by **CaseDogg** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:41 am

i wonder if they tubed in a easter egg for her.