Stories like these always make me think of Terri, too. I am still appalled by the fact that in the United States of American someone could be starved to death on the basis of a statement her husband (the father of two children by another woman) claims he heard her make.
And even that was after he testified under oath, in a court of law, that he needed to become a nurse to keep his end of an agreement with her, to take care of her for the rest of her natural life, which he expected to be another few decades. As soon as he got the money he claimed he needed to uphold that agreement, he changed his testimony.