Her family did believe that she had more than a nonzero chance of some level of recovery, but that was not why they did not want her to be starved to death by h

Her family did believe that she had more than a nonzero chance of some level of recovery, but that was not why they did not want her to be starved to death by having her feeding tube removed. Though they held out hope, they acknowledged that she might never get better. Their objection to withdrawing her feeding tube was not because they considered it wrong to do to a person who might recover but because they considered it wrong to do to a person. That does not mean that they considered every life support measure to be necessary. It just means that they considered the denial of food and water to be different than something like turning off a ventilator.