does God intend for people with cancer who get cured to be dead too? The only thing that was not ordinary to keep Terri alive was a feeding tube. She responded to love in a way that was obvious to her family. And there are cases where people with her disability have at least partially recovered. Plus, her parents wanted her alive and the slow death of starvation was horrible.
I appreciate your good intentions and advocacy for the helpless and your respect for life.
Terry didn't have a living will and the law is very clear that the spouse has the ultimate decision in such cases. (The law recognizes that a person chooses his/her spouse but doesn't choose their parents, now with some of the dysfunctional marriages out there you can argue that the law is wrong, but that is a story for a different day)
On the other hand, I do have a living will and it specifically states 4 things my wife or kids should do if I am ever in a vegetative state that I will not recover from (some might say I'm already there):
1. Do not keep me alive by artificial means.
2. Whatever you do, do not put video of me drooling on myself on every TV channel from here to Sydney.
3. Do not let the religious right use me like a pawn to make a political point.
4. If you violate rules 2 and 3 above, when I meet you at the pearly gates, the first thing I'm going to do is give you a big hug, and the second thing I'm going to do is slap you across the face for not respecting my wishes :-)