We force prisoners to eat and get all distressed that the gitmo gang on a hunger strike. Why? If they refuse to eat...yawn. We refuse food and water to the ones that can't make an informed decision though. We the US are so messed up.
The U.S. is in serious decline. A civilization is measured by how they treat their most vulnerable population. If Terri wasn't enough of a wake up call, this will happen to someone else and then they'll get it. The best advice is to visit http://www.hospicepatients.org. (they are the good guys).
Remember that sometimes people are going to hospices who aren't terminal. They are killing people who aren't even terminal with morphine which takes them down in a week's time; a healthy person can appear to be failing if they are pumped full of morphine. It is poison in the wrong hands.