[CindyDawg]

If her husband was doing this for money then he would have taken the family up on their offer. If he really believes she would not want a feeding tube I can see him wanting it out but why does he not want her to get therapy? The normal routine is to leave the tube in and starting reducing the feeding (so she gets hungry) and begin to teach her to eat. I try to think the best of people but is he afraid for her to get better?

[SeattleTiger]

Speculation -- he cannot do that now (take the money and go.) That would be tacit admittance he was always after the money. Perhaps somewhere along the line -- perhaps when he ended up having to tap into the rehab fund to pay his largish legal fees -- this became a cause rather than a payoff. There seems to be no love lost between him and Terri's family, and no one likes to be publicly and successfully portrayed as a schmuck and a villain.

Don't forget the book his attorney plans to write, by the way. I would not be surprised if he has plans along those lines, either. Again, I am just speculating.

[GYPSY286]

If, and a big if, a really, really, rich person could offer Michael ALOT of money to stop this thing, and he refused, then one could assume that it is NOT about money but about the fact that Michael does not want Terri to get to better so she could TALK about what really happened that night. That is just my take on it by what I have read about so far.