No Joke.
First of all, the first several years after Terri's collapse MS said he had no idea what Terri wanted. Then, some seven years later, when he filed to get Terri killed, his bases for Terri's wishes was that he and Terri were watching a movie, with a person hooked up to the ventilator and other tubes and he claimed Terri made a comment that she wouldn't want to live like that. THAT WAS THE BASIS.
MS's brother testified to another incident, that their 84 year old Mother was on a ventilator for a day or two, even though she did have a written living will, and he claimed that Terri said, she wouldn't want to live like that -- sure she didn't, if she were 84 years old and dying and wouldn't want to be kept on a ventillator -- even if she did make that statement.
THIS WAS THE "EVIDENCE" which Judge Greer used to rule that Terri's wishes were to be starved to death and dehydrated.
That's good enough for me. And it was obviously good enough for the courts over a period of several years.