Oh, here we go again. You can't seem to make it past a few posts without re-informing us of your complete ignorance of Terri's medical condition. Terri was not brain-dead until a year ago, on March 31,2005. That's the point that hooking up a heart machine or a ventilator would've been doing the work for her brain. She didn't need either of those machines within a few weeks of her initial hospitalization.
I do hope you'll educate yourself on some of these terms. It could come in handy some day.
My wife's grandmother was on a ventilator and she certainly wasn't "brain-dead". She had congestive heart failure. I see you are another person who sees nothing wrong with asphyxiating people when medical technology could prevent it, but is against dehydration and starvation. Why? Is air less vital than food and water?
There are some really ignorant trolls on this thread. When you pointed out the fact that Terri could breathe on her own because she wasn't brain dead, some troll accused you of being in favor of suffocating people. It's not possible to have a rational discussion with these people.