Terri is gone. But her memory and legacy live on. What lessons will America draw from this horrific experience? I pray that no other American – conscious or unconscious – is permitted to be starved to death. It makes no difference whether or not there is a living will. It makes no difference whether or not the subject made some casual remark in previous years about his or her wishes. It is one thing to deny extraordinary means of life support to a terminally ill patient. It is another for the state to sanction the killing by the denial of...