Citizen, I like you could not see where that link mentioned PVS. In fact I just did a Google on PVS (I tried all different ways) and I didn't come up with anything. I do remember though reading somewhere not to long ago who the doctor was who first called it PVS and it seems like it was not that many years back.
In Terri's situation though I am not sure if the Florida Statute was after Terri's condition or before. The one thing I have heard quite often though was FLORIDA CHANGED THE HERESAY LAW (to allow heresay) several years after this happened to Terri and THAT IS WHEN MICHIAL SCHIAVO SUDDENLY REMEMBERED. "Oh by the way Terri didn't want to live like this."
Easy to understand why no court would believe them.