Though we still do not know what killed her, one key aspect of the Anna Nicole Smith saga appeared to come to an end today with the ruling that Smith's remains will indeed be granted to the court-appointed guardian of her infant daughter.

A panel of three judges had listened to oral arguments regarding who had the authority to determine where Smith was to be buried. Richard C. Milstein, the court-appointed guardian of Smith's daughter, had been granted the remains by Judge Larry Seidlin last week.

However, Virgie Arthur, the estranged mother of Smith, appealed the original ruling, leading to the hearing before the three judicial officials. Arthur's attorney had insisted the American tradition was for a family to bury their own dead. In addition, the attorney stated that Florida law specifies the burial wishes of the deceased must be specified in writing.

Smith had purchased burial space in the Bahamas when her son Daniel died last September. One justice alluded to a ruling in another such case in 2005, stating that the purchase of those burial plots was tantamount to a written expression of burial wishes, absent any other expression of those wishes.

Smith was just 39 when she died in a Broward hotel on February 8th. Her body has remained at the medical examiner's office since that time.

Of course, there is always the chance that Thursday could dawn with yet another appeal from the Arthur camp.