The moral question precedes and is superior to ANY 'fact' question in Terri's case.
You may, if you like, defend the positive laws which governed the outcome.
You are wrong in doing so.
Acceptance of Deryk Humphry's, or Jack Kervorkian's, thesis on governance of life (that is, that life belongs to individuals here on Earth and thus is subject to their judgments) is a fundamental and extremely significant error.
Thus it was that Congress and the President intervened, supported by a cast of millions including a self-described atheist who is disabled, and EVERY major disability-rights group in the USA, not to mention commentators of all stripes, Democrat, Republican, Jewish, et al.
Perhaps reading the works of Leonard Kass on the question will be helpful to you.
My father was a practicing attorney, and good at it. He made it very clear that judges, as a class, were rarely on his list of most-admired-people. In fact, he often made it clear that they were idiots.
This case does nothing but re-inforce his wisdom.
I do not accept Deryk Humphrey or Jaack Kervorkian's thesis on governance of life.
I do look forward to life after death.
The checks and balances present in our governments were violated when Congress and the President intervened as they did.
I will read the Bible rather than works by Leonard Kass.
My father-in-law was an attorney as well. A Christian man, and I would that he were alive to discuss these matters with him.
There are idiots in every career, every field and in every church. However, we can and will be responsible for our actions, responses and beliefs to the One Judge. He is infallible. He also knows we are human.