Terri Schiavo is worth six to eight million dollars to Michael Schiavo if, and only if, she's dead. If she continues living nothing happens on the book or movie front because there's no ending. When she dies, it is jackpot time for Michael.
Bull. Her death is not required for him to hit the "jackpot". As has been seen many times before, a book or TV movie could just as easily end with, "Terri Schiavo continues to live in a Florida hospice. Her parents visit her often. Her condition remains the same. Michael continues to live with his girlfriend and two children. Etc, etc, etc."