From the Dictionary at LaborLawTalk:

"Although some have proposed that loss of neo-cortical function should be termed "brain death", the term as used clinically includes loss of both cortex and brainstem function."

I don't see how the doctors "universally agreed the woman is brain dead", because she isn't. She has a functioning brain stem which regulates her heartbeat and respiration.

There is enough misinformation to go around. She's not brain dead, she's not in a coma, and starvation doesn't cause pain. I don't believe there's any purpose in keeping her alive in this grotesque manner besides using the poor woman as a sympathy-attracting object to bash around the court system.

This is not about what's best for the people directly involved anymore. It's about how much political carrion the vultures can tear from it.