Sorry, temporarily got involved in another thread.
I believe the statements she made were in reference to her grandmother, who was connected to life support systems in the intensive care ward. There's no information available to say whether Grandma was in a PVS or in a coma or had a stroke or whatever. The only thing that's clear is that Terri saw the tubes and wires and said she never wanted to live that way. At Grandma's funeral, she made an even more detailed statement about her wish not to be connected to machines, and her desire to have that wish in her "will."
You see, my stepfather was on a feeding tube for several years, after a stroke and the total paralysis of the left side of his body, until his eventual death. I would no more have wanted to see his feeding tube pulled than I want to see this happen to Terri.
If we would've pulled Daddy's feeding tube, simply because he couldn't feed himself, we would have been murdering him. Color me biased, but it all just doesn't make sense to me.