Ah, but a death deprivation doesn't count?
Suppose they sealed her in a chamber and evacuated it of air? That wouldn't be a death blow, by your sophistry.
Because it is a commonly repeated mantra makes it right!
She could swallow on her own. Chewing is irrelevant.
She died because she was deliberately and methodically dehydrated for 13 days.
She was not terminal in that her disease would cause her death. If that were the case, she would not have lived at the hospice for 5 years. Michael would not have had to procure a court order to remove her PEG and to simultaneously forbid any hydration by "natural means."
You were lied to. The judge ignored evidence in fact and manipulated the definition of "experimental" and "medical evaluation" to include holding spoonsful of ice chips and water to Terri's lips.
Be outraged at the liars and the unjust. The fact that fair and just courts make these judgements in good faith every day makes the betrayal of the courts in this case more heinous. The fact that hospices all over the country provide the blessing of needed comfort and care for truly terminal patients makes the nurses who stood by while Terri's mouth and nose bled from dehydration more unforgivable.
You're kidding, right? Or do you really believe you wouldn't be administering the death blow if you simply denied food and water to a baby because it required a bottle for successful feeding? Did you miss the part where Judge Greer denied Terri therapy for swallowing? Or the part where one nurse fed her Jell-O without Terri choking? Terri's stomach worked just fine, it was only her swallowing mechanism that was in question.