Michael Schiavo Won't Even Allow Terri's Parents To Attend Her Funeral

Michael Schiavo Won't Even Allow Terri's Parents To Attend Her Funeral

Associated Press | March 31, 2005
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM

COMMENT:
After refusing to allow Terri Schiavo's parents to be at her bedside to comfort her as she died, Michael Schiavo has now plumbed a new low. He's designated a secret location near Philadelphia to bury Terri's ashes so her parents don't show up.

This after 15 years of locking Terri Schiavo in one room and not even allowing her to go outside and sit in the sunshine.

Can it be any more clear about which parties were on the RIGHT and WRONG sides of this entire issue?

Micahel Schiavo is a monster and a murderer. He will not be going to the same place as Terri Schiavo when he dies.

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.''

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