Do you have further details on this? And a link, maybe?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/28/conflicting_memories_about_schiavos_wishes_1111989646?pg=2
...when the Schiavo case reached a Florida courtroom in 2000, Mary Schindler made a different argument.
According to court records and media accounts, Schindler said her daughter's views became clear while the two watched a television program on a comatose 22-year-old, Karen Ann Quinlan. After ingesting alcohol and tranquilizers at a party, Quinlan collapsed and entered a vegetative state, kept alive by a respirator, which some in her family wanted removed, prompting a national debate on the right to die.
''Just leave her alone. Leave her. If they take her off, she might die. Just leave her alone and she will die whenever," said Terri Schiavo, according to Schindler's testimony.
Schindler said her daughter was 17 to 20 when she made the comments, according to court papers. But after she was shown newspaper articles on the Quinlan case, which began in 1975, she changed her mind. Terri Schiavo, on Dec. 3, 1963, was 11 or 12 at the time.