=== Michael had nothing to do with it.
Absolutely he had something to do with it. It was under his orders that she was barred from taking food or drink by mouth and restricted solely to the tube for feeding.
Get your facts straight. None of this had to happen. In fact, if Michael still stood by his sworn testimony and that of his hired guns in the malpractice suit instead of opting to kill her based on belatedly recalled hearsay, there would be no question of Terri's being a burden.
For all we know, she might have been eating solid food and forming actual words by now had her husband not elected to shut her in a closet and use her rehab funds on finding an attorney who'd win his right to starve her to death.