You are overlooking the fact that Greer also forbade the provision of oral sustainence. The media canard that Terri had to be fed by the feeding tube is just that--a canard: if she could not swallow liquids, her saliva would have to have been aspirated, and this was not the case.
A spoon or a tippy cup is not an 'extraordinary means'. The jackbooted thugs outside the hospice weren't keeping out rogue physicians who wanted to insert a gastric tube, but ordinary folk who wanted to give a dying woman a sip of water.
There is a nice piece by a Harvard neuropsychiatrist whose job deals with severely brain damaged patients posted somewhere here. (I think the title was "It is ended".) It addresses the real judicial excess in this case.
Greer should be impeached. His order violated Florida statutes which forbid the denial of food and water to disabled persons, and was nothing short of state sanctioned murder.
Thank you for pointing out the real act of intentional murder in this case: the denial of both artificial and natural means of hydration and nutrition.
I'm not overlooking Greer's corruption one bit. IMHO this guy has twisted facts to a point any Nazi would be proud. All I'm saying is this guy had the ability to make this all totally legal. By Florida law PVS's can't swallow, therefore don't get any thing by mouth. He was able to get a non-PVS women declared PVS therefore that is the reason all these rulings went against Terri.
Legal is not synonyms with morale in todays courts.