Apparently not, because you clearly do not. You can use words any way you choose. But when you use them in a way that does not scan with the way others understand them, you totally fail to communicate.
Thus you may proclaim the sun to be the source of cold weather. Will anyone believe you?
What would happen if a judge put a disabled woman in a pen at his home and would not give her food or water, would not allow others to feed her?
It would be a murder case.
There is no difference in Terri's case. He did not offer her food and water by mouth as they removed the tube - therefore, murder was committed.
You can't say murder is murder at home, but legal if done by the state.