TAMPA, Fla. - Terri Schiavo's body was cremated Saturday as disagreements continued between her husband and her parents, who were unable to have their own independent expert observe her autopsy.
The cremation was carried out according to a court order issued Tuesday establishing that Michael Schiavo had the right to make such decisions, said his lawyer, George Felos. He said plans for burying her ashes in Pennsylvania, where she grew up, had not yet been completed.
Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had wanted to bury their daughter in Pinellas County so they could visit her grave.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died Thursday after the removal of the feeding tube that had kept her alive since 1990, when she suffered brain damage that court-appointed doctors determined had placed her in a persistent vegetative state. Her parents had fought in court to keep her alive, disputing the doctors' opinions and saying there was hope of improvement.
Michael Schiavo has not spoken publicly since his wife's death, but Felos said Saturday: "He's holding up. It's very difficult for him."
Michael Schiavo is required to tell his wife's parents of any memorial services he plans for Terri Schiavo and where her ashes are interred.
The Schindlers plan to have their own memorial service Tuesday at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Gulfport.
The Schindlers had sought to have independent medical experts observe their daughter's autopsy at the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's office, but the agency refused their request, family attorneys David Gibbs III and Barbara Weller said Saturday.
The autopsy was completed Friday, the day after Terri Schiavo died, and results are not expected for several weeks.
Representatives of the medical examiner's office did not return a call seeking comment Saturday. The examiner's office has said it would conduct routine examinations and look for any evidence of what might have caused her 1990 collapse.
The Schindlers have accused Michael Schiavo of **** his wife, a charge he vehemently denies.
Over the years, the couple have sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition and what caused it. Abuse complaints to state social workers were ruled unfounded — although one investigation remains open — and the Pinellas state attorney's office did not turn up evidence of abuse in one brief **** of the case.
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who cares about Terri Schiavo??i mean do people even know how she ended up as a veggie anyways??...well if you dont she was BULIMIC...yeah i said it...she was freaking BULIMIC, before her death she drank 10 to 15 glasses of tea a day, and even tried to throw that back up, she was skinnny as heck before her comatose state..and she went into that state because of LACK OF FOOD!...people she tried to basically **** herself...now she's ****...basically what she was trying to do for years...now i know plenty of minorities in comatose states from car accidents, illness, etc....and yet after a few months,weeks, even days their tubes are cut cause of lack of funding, this bulimic chick who basically sinned before god and **** her body literally gets put on a tube artifically to live for 15 years when god clearly wanted her to die and all of a sudden people wanna talk about how immoral it is to **** her....f**k it...god clearly made her partially brain-**** for a reason....and to keep her alive like that is just ludicrous and it's messing with god's will......i dont care about Terri.......... she shouldve ate .....and im done...
well damn. i mean, if you dont care why did you post?? :???:
because as a moderator and poster for over 2 years, i decided "hey what da hell" since this an unpolitically correct, free speech forum, i wanted to express to others how much i didnt care about that woman in case THEY DIDNT KNOW since i do care if people know my views and how to me IN MY OPINION all of this is silly...now if you or anyone else have any other questions you can direct them to me at mehogeni85 on aim between the hours of 10Pm and 12...i value all opinions and questions yo and imma nice person too!*suprise*:grin: ..
and to continue with my views...i care more about the cruelness of innocent brothas on death row getting electrocuted or injected than the plight of that whole long drawn out fiasco...
Miss Shoya...
I definitely understand your frustration...and points made....
I agree that this was an issue that received too much media attention for this type of thing to go on with Blacks, Hispanics, and such all of the time....
But what else is new?? Elizabeth Smart....Jessica Lynch....Lacy Peterson....Jon Benet Ramsey....shoot, even Nicole Simpson....
crimes happen to certain types of people....and it's a worldwide concern....same crimes happen to everyone else....and it stays local, if that....
this has been going on for years....and yeah, it's definitely not right....
however....you can't knock people for simply voicing their opinions about this matter....i mean, it IS an issue in the media that we are exposed to, so naturally we are going to have something to say....
and I disagree with what you said about God wanting her **** sooner....like my mom said, that's the whole thing - if He wanted her **** sooner, He's God....she would've been **** a LONG time ago....
He LET her live for 15 extra years after her incident.....
there ain't a feeding tube in the world that could've kept that woman alive if it wasn't in His will.....
and again, i stress that it isn't like she was having a machine pump her heart for her....she was being kept alive by FOOD....and WATER....
ANYbody would die from deprivation of either after so much amount of time....
regardless of her situation - her past and whatnot - it was no one's responsibility to put an end to her life like that.....unless she had specifically made a living will before her incident to do so....which she didn't, obviously.....
that was cruel and unusual punishment.....dehydration - HOW r u gonna cause someone to die of dehydration?!?!?
but anyway....so yeah, miss shoya - i feel ya pain, chica....but everyone was simply addressing something that none of us have been able to escape from paying attention to the media in the past month or so....
when more of us are in the positions to make decisions of allowing more coverage for our concerns and tragedies...and we see reflection of this actually on TV, in papers, etc. etc....then we'll discuss us...
but in the meantime....just speaking on one of the trillions of current events going on in this country at this moment.....
^^^ i dunno it kind of woke me up to what was going on...i don't think anyone should be starved to death to be put out of thier misery...why is it that some cat who banged a 2 year old girl and slit her throat gets a simple, painless injection and other folk get to starve to death?
i mean i know she didn't feel anything because of her brain...but cmon! :x
but i think americas beginning to head down a slippery slope with these right to die cases...watch when social security falls through...watch how many plugs we're gonna be pulling then...we're gonna end up just like the netherlands...and the next thing is government supported suicides...8-) (nessa)
who cares about Terri Schiavo??i mean do people even know how she ended up as a veggie anyways??...well if you dont she was BULIMIC...yeah i said it...she was freaking BULIMIC, before her death she drank 10 to 15 glasses of tea a day, and even tried to throw that back up, she was skinnny as heck before her comatose state..and she went into that state because of LACK OF FOOD!...people she tried to basically **** herself...now she's ****...basically what she was trying to do for years...now i know plenty of minorities in comatose states from car accidents, illness, etc....and yet after a few months,weeks, even days their tubes are cut cause of lack of funding, this bulimic chick who basically sinned before god and **** her body literally gets put on a tube artifically to live for 15 years when god clearly wanted her to die and all of a sudden people wanna talk about how immoral it is to **** her....f**k it...god clearly made her partially brain-**** for a reason....and to keep her alive like that is just ludicrous and it's messing with god's will......i dont care about Terri.......... she shouldve ate .....and im done...
wow... that's what I've been saying (offline) all week!
who cares about Terri Schiavo??i mean do people even know how she ended up as a veggie anyways??...well if you dont she was BULIMIC...yeah i said it...she was freaking BULIMIC, before her death she drank 10 to 15 glasses of tea a day, and even tried to throw that back up, she was skinnny as heck before her comatose state..and she went into that state because of LACK OF FOOD!...people she tried to basically **** herself...now she's ****...basically what she was trying to do for years...now i know plenty of minorities in comatose states from car accidents, illness, etc....and yet after a few months,weeks, even days their tubes are cut cause of lack of funding, this bulimic chick who basically sinned before god and **** her body literally gets put on a tube artifically to live for 15 years when god clearly wanted her to die and all of a sudden people wanna talk about how immoral it is to **** her....f**k it...god clearly made her partially brain-**** for a reason....and to keep her alive like that is just ludicrous and it's messing with god's will......i dont care about Terri.......... she shouldve ate .....and im done...
well damn. i mean, if you dont care why did you post?? :???:
because as a moderator and poster for over 2 years, i decided "hey what da hell" since this an unpolitically correct, free speech forum, i wanted to express to others how much i didnt care about that woman in case THEY DIDNT KNOW since i do care if people know my views and how to me IN MY OPINION all of this is silly...now if you or anyone else have any other questions you can direct them to me at mehogeni85 on aim between the hours of 10Pm and 12...i value all opinions and questions yo and imma nice person too!*suprise*:grin: ..
and to continue with my views...i care more about the cruelness of innocent brothas on death row getting electrocuted or injected than the plight of that whole long drawn out fiasco...
alright ma. it's all good...
alright ma. it's all good...
