If you had the option to request a lethal injection, would you choose that course instead for her?
I have no idea what I would do if I were in that situation. What I do know is that I wouldn't want a bunch of judges and "conservatives" to make that decision for me (or for my wife, if I were the one in a PVS). This is a private matter between me and my wife.
from the article....
(Brother Paul)
"She was not dying, she was not on life support," he said. Terri needed just food and water -- what anyone needs to live -- like thousands of other incapacitated people with no hope of improvement: among them, adults with advanced Alzheimer's and children with severe cerebral palsy.
For Brother Paul, the Schiavo case raises an issue with implications for all people with disabilities, including many with problems less severe than Terri's. "Our society seems to be moving toward a new 'standard of care,' " he says. "Instead of assuming the sanctity of life, we try to determine whether a person should live solely by measuring his or her 'quality of life.' "
"People contemplate a seriously disabled person" -- like a quadriplegic --"and say, 'Who would want to live that way?' The answer, of course, is no one. But when people actually become disabled, they often discover a meaning in life that they never could have anticipated."