The most interesting question to me, and the most important, was not asked. Which is, should people be starved/dehydrated to death, if they left clear directions that is what they wanted if they were in a PVS?
Terri did NOT leave "clear directions", far from it.
I think everyone agrees, that if people left specific directions in writing their wishes should be honored.
The point here was that there was no such thing in Terri's case, it was he husband's word, claiming to remember seven years later, --- after he collected millions to keep Terri alive for the next 50 years, --- some off-hand comments that Terri may or may not have made. Terri's family and friends testifying to the opposite.
AND Terri's family wanted to take care of her and Terri was responding and smiling at them -- doesn't sound like someone eager to die, does it.