3/31/05
I think people already know my opinion on the Terri Schiavo story. If not, then read back a few entires and you will. Today is a sad sad day for not only her family and friends, but for the humanity of our nation. Below I am copy and pasting part of an article from Yahoo News. All I have to say now is… God don’t like ugly. What goes around comes around, and Michael Schiavo will meet his maker one day. May God have mercy on his soul.
Outside the hospice where over the past few weeks more than 50 protesters were arrested, many for trying to symbolically bring Schiavo food and water demonstrators wept, prayed and sang religious hymns. Some threw their protest signs down in disgust.
“You saw a murder happening,” said one demonstrator, Dominique Hanks.
Schiavo’s body was taken in an unmarked white van with police motorcycle escort to the Pinellas County medical examiner’s office, where an autopsy was planned that both sides hoped would shed light on the extent of her brain damage and whether she was abused by her husband, as the Schindlers have argued.
In what was the source of yet another dispute between the husband and his in-laws, Michael Schiavo will get custody of his wife’s body and plans to have her cremated.
Michael Schiavo’s brother, Scott Schiavo, said the ashes will be buried in an undisclosed location near Philadelphia so that her immediate family does not attend and turn the moment into a media spectacle. A funeral Mass, sought by the Schindlers, was tentatively scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday.
Asked about perhaps never knowing where his sister might be buried, Bobby Schindler said, “We’ve already said goodbye. … He’s been doing this kind of stuff for 15 years. What would make him stop now?”
Bob Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s father, attended a public memorial service late Thursday at a church in Pinellas Park, telling his supporters: “We’ll never forget you all. Thank you so, so much. And Terri thanks you, too.”
Schindler received a standing ovation from the more than 200 people at the service, who hugged him and shook his hand as he left.
The ill will between the husband and his in-laws became plain in other ways: The Schindlers’ advisers complained that Schiavo’s brother and sister had been at her bedside a few minutes before the end came, but were not there at the moment of her death because Michael Schiavo would not let them in the room.
“And so his heartless cruelty continues until this very last moment,” said Pavone, a Roman Catholic priest.
Felos disputed the Schindler family’s account. He said that Terri Schiavo’s siblings had been asked to leave the room so that the hospice staff could examine her, and the brother, Bobby Schindler, started arguing with a law enforcement official.
Michael Schiavo feared a “potentially explosive” situation, and would not allow the brother in the room, Felos said. “Mrs. Schiavo had a right to have her last and final moments on this earth be experienced by a spirit of love and not of acrimony,” the lawyer said.
Bobby Schindler did not address the family discord, but Pavone who was with Schindler when he was asked to leave said the brother “didn’t raise his voice, but he became visibly upset” because he couldn’t be with his sister when she died. A police spokesman refused to say whether there was a dispute.
Rest In Peace, Terri Schiavo.