They are the train of the bride's dress. You do not want the bride naked in her stroll to the altar.
Terri was no bride. Fact of the matter is there was lots of smoke over an issue that plain and simply was a group of people, including the family was hell bent on not even allowing her wishes to be carried out if those were her wishes. So from the beginning, their whole program was a sham and a parade. It may be morally wrong to die that way. It may be a sin. But it is just as morally wrong and a sin to cloak an argument in peripheral issues that had no meaning, and letting the masses believe something that at face value isn't really the issue. That's called deceit. That too is a sin.