Exactly. Those nutcases ringing the hospice and demanding access to take her water (and a burger w/fries) would have killed her if they'd had their way. I guess to some, death by a stupid but compassionate act is far more acceptable than a person who states a desire not to have their life prolonged by artificial means.
And who was that?
Choking to death would have been far more merciful than dehydrating/starving her to death.
Surely, as a Freeper, you have the understanding that you've just made a straw man argument. The whole question of the case was whether she had stated that desire, and if so, had stated it in a way the law could recognize. Had Terri had a living will saying that she wanted no tube, she would have been dead by the end of 1990, and there would have been no one gathered around her hospice trying to give her anything.
I think you know these things. I also think you know, or should know, that if you posted "I don't want to have a feeding tube like Terri Schiavo" on FR, your post would have more legal standing than a remembered, decade-old verbal living will. At least, in any courtroom where they follow the law.