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Attorney: Terri Schiavo's Remains Interred NewsMax.com WiresTAMPA, Fla. - The remains of Terri Schiavo, the severely brain-damaged woman who died after her feeding tube was removed in March, were interred Monday in a Clearwater cemetery, her husband's attorney said. Story Continues Below The interment failed to bring a close to the Schiavo saga, which included a lengthy court battle over her end-of-life wishes. Instead, acrimony flared anew, with her parents complaining they were not notified beforehand about the service. Schiavo, 41, died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order. She collapsed in 1990 after a chemical imbalance caused her heart to stop. Two days after her death, she was cremated and her husband, Michael Schiavo, was given possession of her remains. The husband had said her ashes would be buried at a family plot in Pennsylvania. But on Monday his attorney, George Felos, said in a statement that the service and interment had taken place at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park in Clearwater. The statement did not explain why Michael Schiavo, who lives near Clearwater, decided to keep his wife's remains in Florida. Schiavo's parents had opposed her cremation and hoped to bury her in their adopted state of Florida. Services for Schiavo already had been conducted in nearby Gulfport, where her parents live, and in Pennsylvania, where she grew up. An attorney for Bob and Mary Schindler said the family was notified by fax only after Monday's service, when the family had already started getting calls from reporters, David Gibbs said. "We were not notified (in advance) in any respect of any service or any memorial, and clearly that's sad for the family," Gibbs said. Felos' statement said the Schindlers were notified of the service and interment. Terri Schiavo left no written instructions in the event she became disabled, and her husband said she never would have wanted to be kept alive in what court-appointed doctors called a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery. Her parents, however, doubted she had any such end-of-life wishes. They maintained she would benefit from rehabilitation, despite most doctors saying her condition was irreversible. The seven-year battle engulfed the courts, Congress, the White House and divided the country.
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