It always was, but he chose to defer responsibility for Terri's plight to local authority who have an eye to gravy train profits in :
death bed will re-writes aimed at benefiting scumbag lawyers and churches (having long ago abandoned the adoration of Christ in favor of an emersion into a sewer of sin);
unwarranted legal fees;
a higher corporate return through abbreviated hospice patient care, and
the lucrative potential awaiting them through the sale of organ and body parts.