"In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo, I have never seen such a look of peace and beauty upon her," he insisted.

Felos's comments were sharply at odds with accounts from her family and their lawyers, who say her eyes are sunken, her skin is flaking and that she's bleeding from the eyes and mouth.

"It's like someone who is coming out of a bunker in Auschwitz," Terri's sister, Suzanne Vitadamo, told reporters Saturday.

"This is heinous what's happening, absolutely heinous - this is absolutely barbaric," her brother, Bobby Schindler, complained. "If she is in fact dying so peacefully and easily, why not allow a camera in there to videotape it?" he said.

Further belying Mr. Felos' claims that Terri is "resting comfortably," lawyers for her family say nurses have begun to administer morphine to ease the intense pain.

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