>> "For a few years, her family and husband, Michael, worked toward recovery. Then, he changed his mind. It was hopeless, he contended. She would not have wanted to live like this."
Read it again. HE changed his mind. So much for his preposterous, self-interested lie that she said she wanted to die. Michael made it up. His ENTIRE case for trying to kill her rests on this lie.
Michael is not exactly swift, but it didn't take him more than two or three months to figure out that he was the sole heir to more than a million dollars if he could get rid of Terri. From that moment he was overwhelmed with compassion towards her "wish" to die a horrible death by dehydration. One of the nurse's affidavits quoted his sentimental, tender feelings for his wife: "I'm going to be rich!"