Sure there is. The law allows you to refuse that inalienable right for yourself. The law defines food and water as "medical treatment". Maybe the laws should be clarified - if the law doesn't allow you to refuse medical treatment, and the law doesn't define food as "medicine", then we don't have this problem. Terri's family's lawyers should have invoked the Americans With Disabilities Act. As the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has pointed out, she was deprived food and water simply because of her disability.
As the disability rights group Not Dead Yet has pointed out, she was deprived food and water simply because of her disability. Well, bonus points for creativity, but realistically, she was denied food and water because that's what she wanted. So the law determined, anyway, right or wrong.