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Most people seem to think that a legal precedent will be set if Terri is killed. Wesley Smith says the legal precedent was set a long time ago for these kinds of killings, as in the 1970's. Most euthanasia sites also say this.

That is why these kinds of family-killing-member-by-dehydration are so commonplace today. It is only through the Grace of God that Terri is still alive, and the hard work of her parents, Jeb, legal staff, and others behind the scenes.

It is, in fact, nothing unusual at all to kill a family member by dehydration today. The evil behind this is dismayed that the Schindlers have kept them hopping this long and have managed to bring so much light to the subject.

I have two coworkers who allowed their parent or grandparent to die of deliberate dehydration. In the last year, one in another state. Because of dementia or inability to swallow.

For more than ten years, conscious and unconscious cognitively disabled people who use feeding tubes have been legally dehydrated to death in the United States. This intentional life-ending act-clamping feeding tubes and denying all sustenance-has become so ubiquitous that, generally, little attention is paid. This public indifference was shattered by the Terri Schiavo litigation...