I do wonder how you get around the fact that no food/liquid passed her lips. Even Karen Quinlan was weaned off her respirator, which in her case kept her alive, and allowed to live or die based on if her body could keep breathing on it’s own. I don’t think she was denied food/hydration tho.
‘IF’ Terri really was not conscious then offering her food and drink through her mouth should not have been that awful since she would not ingest enough to keep herself alive indefinitely. Why was she not given that chance?
She wasn't. The suggestion was made but her father angrily refused to take away her feeding tube, saying that that was her nutrition. Karen Ann died of pneumonia almost ten years after she was weaned off of the respirator.
I bet you would have loved the spectacle of choking when she couldn't swallow, eh? Would you have said, "look at how cruel the Schindlers are!"? Somehow, I doubt it.
Besides, I am not arguing against her receiving morphine..that was her parents.