Terri's Watch: The New Battle

The legal fight to keep brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive appears to be over, but a new fight erupted between her husband and her parents over what will happen to her body after she dies.
Michael Schiavo, who had his wife’s feeding tube removed by court order, has made arrangements for her to be cremated and her ashes interred in his family’s plot in Pennsylvania. But Bob and Mary Schindler want their daughter to have a Roman Catholic funeral service and to be buried near their home in Clearwater, Florida. Terri Schiavo was given last rites and Easter communion — a drop of wine, but no bread

The Schindlers have pinned their last hopes on Florida’s governor, Jeb Bush, who, they say, has the authority to take Terri into the state’s protection.

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