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Schiavo Kin: Parents Not Wanted at Burial
Guardian ^ | 3/31/05 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

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.''


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; endtschindlercircus; enoughterrithreads; hatefulbastard; idontblamehim; mean; moreterri; nothingtoseehere; terri; terrischiavo; yeskeepthemcoming
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To: peyton randolph
I dunno but as Catholics we know that the Church is a hospital for sinners, few of us are saints.

It is so difficult to not be outraged over this... and it will not end for her family even with this poor woman's untimely death.

A normal human being would bury her quietly in Florida where her entire family resides.

Heard an independent pathologist will not be allowed at the autopsy... only the resident coroner will do the autopsy.

41 posted on 03/31/2005 3:28:06 PM PST by american colleen
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To: octobersky
He is so vindictive.

I sure wouldn't want my wife's funeral turned into the media circus that's been outside that hospice.

42 posted on 03/31/2005 3:28:57 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Poohbah

There you go.....being logical!


43 posted on 03/31/2005 3:29:15 PM PST by OldFriend ( SAW MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ON CSPAN........AWESOME)
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To: hipaatwo; All
It's unimaginable that this complete scumbag is being exonerated as the 'good guy' and the Shindlers are blasted as 'those evil' people by some.

Read all the gory details here: MANIFESTO OF THE WPPFF/WILD TURKEYS/COALITION OF THE SANE

A few samples...

This entire Schiavo business is bullsh*t. Why people get so worked up over it is a mystery.

Yes, she died. And all you guys can do is blame us. That's fine. Do it on the main forum. This is still OUR thread. God said "NO" to all your millions of prayers. It was his will...he wanted her. So get your bad self off our thread, because you are disrupting it..Leave us in peace.

Good is evil, evil is good, up is down, down is up, WEIRD!

44 posted on 03/31/2005 3:29:18 PM PST by AmericaUnited (Opponent of WPPFF (Wicked People Pulling Feeding Facilities))
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To: hipaatwo

Michael Schiavo is an abomination to God and the Human Race! He is richly deserving of both condemnation and judgement.


45 posted on 03/31/2005 3:29:30 PM PST by DarthVader (John "Diarrhea of the Mouth" Kerry = Vile Smelling Excrement)
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To: HairOfTheDog

For reasons unexplained, Terri's mother has not visited her since Easter Sunday.


46 posted on 03/31/2005 3:30:20 PM PST by OldFriend ( SAW MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ON CSPAN........AWESOME)
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To: OldFriend

I know. It gets me in trouble every time.


47 posted on 03/31/2005 3:30:37 PM PST by Poohbah (I'm in the WPPFF)
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To: octobersky

Wouldn't it be great if the Schindlers moved back to PA -- right across the street from the cemetery?


48 posted on 03/31/2005 3:30:43 PM PST by ladylib
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To: EveningStar

What did the A.M. say about post # 12?


49 posted on 03/31/2005 3:30:46 PM PST by sport
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To: hipaatwo

It was hideous enough that the family was denied the comfort of spending time with Terri in her last moments, this is an utter outrage.

I have seldom seen such callous cruelty displayed on a public stage before.

Regards, Ivan


50 posted on 03/31/2005 3:30:59 PM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: dcnd9

My father-in-law had a business partner named Shiavo in his first business. They were Italian Catholics. It's not that common a name, and I bet that they were relatives of this murderer.


51 posted on 03/31/2005 3:31:23 PM PST by Eva
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To: TontoKowalski
Everything I have seen points to the fact that MS is truly anti-Catholic. The poor parents, won't even be able to put flowers on the grave at Memorial Day, or visit the grave on All Soul's Day, which is a Catholic custom. Let alone making it difficult since they are all in Florida and she will be buried thousands of miles away in PA. Cremation is slowing being accepted in the Catholic Church, but for devout Catholics, it is still taboo. He would not allow daily Communion. Through Felos this morning, he lashed out at Father Pavone. This is so anti-Catholic it is unbelievable.
52 posted on 03/31/2005 3:31:48 PM PST by luvs tradition
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To: flixxx
I'm with Michael on this. Shame on the likes of Sean and Rush for carrying the charges of the Shindlers with no care in the world for the hate filled rhetoric that ensued.

Death threats for Michael, the hospice, the police chief. Death threats for Jeb Bush, President Bush. This from so called right to life people?

Beam me up!

53 posted on 03/31/2005 3:32:55 PM PST by OldFriend ( SAW MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ON CSPAN........AWESOME)
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To: MadIvan
It was hideous enough that the family was denied the comfort of spending time with Terri in her last moments, this is an utter outrage.

I once again point out that if you spend seven years accusing someone of being a wife beater, without any evidence to back up that claim, then they're probably not going to invite you over for tea and crumpets.

Of course, that explains why I don't throw such accusations around unless I've got the goods.

54 posted on 03/31/2005 3:33:14 PM PST by Poohbah (I'm in the WPPFF)
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To: sport

The post has been deleted. I'd be greatly surprised if I was the only one who pushed the abuse button, though.


55 posted on 03/31/2005 3:33:22 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: MadIvan; floriduh voter

and yet....and yet.....ms's lawyer felos launched a 30 min attack on the Schindlers and on Terri's dignity as he discussed details of her death in great detail.

storm.... heaven's crying in NE FL...

WOW, fv -- just heard on abc--- snipers on the roofs!!! confirmed!! shown!! wow -- this is abc.


56 posted on 03/31/2005 3:35:17 PM PST by cyn (it's sarcasm, but Jim King really said it.)
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To: hipaatwo

This guy is one cold hearted son of a bitch who needs to see what it feels like to be starved for two weeks...


57 posted on 03/31/2005 3:35:32 PM PST by biff0101
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To: hipaatwo
How can Michael Schiavo's defenders (few as they may be) defend this? This is pure hate-filled vindictiveness.
58 posted on 03/31/2005 3:35:33 PM PST by silent_jonny
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To: Poohbah

Any dispute between Michael Schiavo and Terri's parents are irrelevant. Common decency requires that the dispute be shelved in the name of the sanctity of the event.

Regards, Ivan


59 posted on 03/31/2005 3:35:36 PM PST by MadIvan (One blog to bring them all...and in the Darkness bind them: http://www.theringwraith.com/)
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To: MadIvan

You couldn't make this stuff up, it's unbelievable.


60 posted on 03/31/2005 3:36:03 PM PST by jpsb
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