I'd sure like to see some statistics on this.
It's a line which fits very nicely into the 'kill Terri, who cares?' movement--and the MSM repeats it all the time.
Curiously, no one seems to have hard numbers.
One of my best friend's is a manager (he's in charge of insurance coding of medical records) at a fairly large hospital here in Connecticut. While he didn't give me any hard numbers, he did say, during our discussion of Terri's situation over the weekend, that withholding food, water, and medical procedures happens all the time. If the individual has a living will &/or the family is in agreement, the food & water stops.
Personally, I think that the sheeple have been sold a bad bill of goods in this whole "Death w/ Dignity" crap. Now, if you say feed me & medicate me till I'm flatlining, people look at you like you're crazy. Death w/ Dignity is going to lead to Duty to Die. Don't be a burden on your family and all that garbage.
Heck, no one's life ever ends up the way we think it will. And we all adjust to it. If I couldn't walk, I wouldn't be happy, but I'd adjust. No one knows in advance what he/she could get use to until it happens.
How can any of us know that Terri wasn't happy!!! She never planned to end up as she has, but that doesn't mean that she doesn't have an appreciation for her life as it is.
Sorry, no one has the right to stop feeding someone, who isn't already dying, under any circumstances. To do so is either murder or assisted suicide.