...including, certainly, the notion that Terri indicated a clear and unambiguous wish to be fatally dehydrated if she were ever in this situation.
Sorry, but I find the notion that a guardian can get the state's blessing to kill an incapacitated ward merely by claiming the ward expressed a desire not to live is extremely frightening.
Ah, and this is the crux of the whole case.
If it is not written down it did not happen!