Posted on 03/31/2005 3:02:29 PM PST by hipaatwo
Associated Press Writer
LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Terri Schiavo's ashes will be buried in an undisclosed location near Philadelphia so that her immediate family doesn't show up and turn the burial into a media spectacle, a member of the Schiavo family said Thursday.
``If Mike knew they would come in peace, he would have no problem with it,'' Scott Schiavo, Michael Schiavo's brother, said during an interview at his home.
After an autopsy, Michael Schiavo plans to have his wife's body cremated and her ashes brought to Pennsylvania, where she grew up. Scott Schiavo said the ashes would be buried in a plot left by an aunt and uncle, but the family does not plan on providing the specficic location for the burial - underscoring the bitterness of the dispute.
Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had fought for years to prevent her feeding tube from being removed, and they opposed cremation and wanted her buried in Florida.
Neither Terri Schiavo's parents nor her siblings addressed the issue of her burial in their remarks to reporters in Florida on Thursday. A spiritual adviser to her parents, Paul O'Donnell, said they plan to hold a Roman Catholic Mass without her body sometime next week.
Scott Schiavo said he received a stream of calls Thursday from people denouncing him. On his answering machine was a message from a man from Texas who called the Schiavo family murderers.
Police made visits Thursday to both Scott Schiavo's home and the home of his brother, William, in Philadelphia, as a result of threats to the families.
Scott Schiavo expressed relief that his sister-in-law's ordeal was over, and anger at those who have attacked the Schiavo family.
``This isn't over by a long shot, We're going to get our name right,'' he said. ``The world is going to know who Mike was, they're going to know Mike wasn't a beast.''
At Terri Schiavo's alma mater, Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, workers changed a sign that read ``Terri Schiavo, Class of 1981, We pray that you may live'' to ``We pray that you rest in peace.''
Uh. I think his current wife is named Jodi, and she is very much alive at the present moment and, I assume, well fed.
I don't think your comment was the worst. Until now, I had just forced myself to keep from pushing the abuse button.
BUMP
What adominable conduct? I'm not flaming you, I just don't know what the Schindlers have done that could be called "adominable".
There's a site about Scientology satanists and Terri Schiavi about just your idea.
Yes. You are correct. Regards,
Making allegations of wife-beating for seven years without any evidence is pretty abominable in my book.
Not the Lutheran church I know!!
Maybe he'll combine the funeral and wedding into one.
It's terrible, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Just when I think that I can't be shocked by his behavior, he manages to out do himself.
Well, because I'm a really nasty SOB when I get ticked off, I'd let them show up, and have them bring the media circus, and let them spout off.
And then serve everyone with the defamation lawsuit.
Precisely. Nothing infuriates a rude person more than meticulous politeness which highlights their behavior.
Interesting use of the word was... apparently Mike used to be something other than what he is now. Take a look at this web site and decide for yourself. Detecting Deception Through Statement Analysis
I hope he does. Michael would have to take the stand in any such lawsuit, and that's one thing he can't afford to do.
There is no excuse to hide the location of a person's burial from their parents. You can't rationalize this because of things that they have said about Michael, that they believed.
The name Michael Schiavo or "to Schiavo someone" or "what a Schiavo this guy is" etc., etc. has already entered the English lexicon. Your name Schiavo now ranks BELOW Lewnisky.
I've been anything but a hall monitor. In all my 5 years at FR this is only the 2nd or 3rd time I've hit the abuse button on someone else's post. I've made many unfortunate comments myself in the past and have even pushed the abuse button on my own posts.
Do you really think the whole world isn't going to know where those ashes get buried?
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