It is certainly puzzling -- and obnoxious! This is literally a case of the guardian killing his ward. There is no "right to die" question involved. That's propaganda, a smokescreen to cover a clinical execution.
We emphatically need new federal and state protections against the abuse of legal guardianship. Michael Schiavo has turned his guardianship into total, cruel domination of a wife I believe he once beat within an inch of her life. He has abused her, withheld treatment, stolen the money for her therapy, and tried repeatedly to murder her by dehydration. He has the power to do it as things stand! -- the power to order doctors and nurses around, and even give judges unpalatable choices. Those are all matters crying for sharp reform. Terri needs an ombudsman -- someone disinterested who will speak for her and protect her from those bent on harming her.