That is his excuse...that Terri once said she wouldn't want to live by artificial means. We have only Michael's word, supposedly corroberated by Michael's brother and his girlfriend(???) or someone close to him like that, and it was even admittedly an offhand remark she made about a tv program showing a woman hooked up to and being kept alive by machines. Which has nothing to do, really, with the situation now, with her needing only a feeding tube, and perhaps not even that if she were given therapy, and with him wanting to starve/dehydrate her to death. But I for one don't believe him even that much.
Gee if eating and drinking is "artificial" means of staying alive, we are ALL living as disabled folks. How absurd huh?