The law says that you can refuse that right, and under the law, that is what happened here - Terri Schiavo refused her right to life. I suggest that the law should be changed, then, by the properly constituted authorities who deal with changing the law - the Florida legislature.
The only person who has relayed that 'information' is Michael Schiavo; ie one person's word against that of another who couldn't speak. The default is life in that situation. It's hearsay as another person stated.
Hearsay is unreliable.........for a reason. Say, for example, I relay at this moment a rumor that Michael Schiavo is so stressed out by all of this that he wants to die. Say his head meets a lead pipe several times, and he winds up in a 'vegetative state'........think they'll pull the plug based on my hearsay evidence? Should they?
Suicide is against the law. That's the refusal of life, right?