But let's get one thing straight; the courts killed Terri Schiavo.

She didn't say she wanted to die, she didn't write she wanted to die, and there was nothing but hearsay evidence on the part of her "husband", his brother, and his brother's wife that she wanted to die.  She didn't kill herself. 

Thus, the courts killed her.  If you had placed the same type of evidence in a court trial, you wouldn't get a jury in the world to convict the defendant.  But, it was enough to kill an innocent woman.