We are talking about Terri, tho, I'm sure that this has happened before and does happen. It doesn't make it right and if they are starving people to death and dehydrating people to death when those people could orally ingest stuff then it's against the law. The conspiracy of silence in this matter has to end and the hoodlums prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as Kevorkian was.
They can legally only remove the feeding tube. I don't believe they should even be able to do that but right now that is the law in Florida for a person with PVS.
And we don't even know that Terri was PVS or if it was a misdiagnosis.
If a person really wants to die, then nothing and no one outside of God is going to make them live. I think Terri has proved that she wanted to live!
Please see
http://www.thedavidallenshow.com/topics/terrishiavo/20050228.somethingsfishy/20050228.lawschange
I think there was even a court order about feeding her by tube, although I am not certain, but this change to the law in 1999 is crucial. The noise to change it started in 1997. It does include "hydration." As a matter of fact, using dehydration, lack of food and administration of morphine to hasten death is what is now used. See http://home.earthlink.net/~joyinlife/.
There's bunches of these links all over kingdom come now, so you can search for yourself. Even some bioethicists think/thought Terri and her ilk are/were non-person(s).
I really don't want to talk about this anymore. I will point you to http://www.lifenews.com/bio186.html
'Happy' searching.