Makes you wonder, if he's got no ulterior motives, why won't he respect the parents' wishes? Gee, what could he be trying to hide?? Argh....
In this case, Michael has stated many times that he was offered $10 million to “walk away,” and leave Terri for her family to care for. Let’s look at this:
First, if indeed we accept that he had made some very fine attempts at caring for Terri, and finally felt he could do no more, he could have gone on with his life knowing he did his best. He had made a new life with another woman and children, he truly was not honoring all of his vows to Terri, so why hold onto some “offhanded” comment she “might have made?”
Still, no one would have faulted him and I don't know about others, but I certainly would have taken $10 million dollars, and felt that to not do so would have been senseless. After all, with $10 million the medical cost issue could have been totally resolved, and the U.S would not be paying for her care. MS could have kept $5 million for himself, and put $5 million in a trust fund for Terri’s care. Then, while with her parents as guardians and as therapy was allowed to continue, she might have regained some abilities – i.e. the ability to swallow. She no longer would be "living hooked up to machines," as Michael claimes she mentioned. She could, perhaps, exist without a feeding tube, thus the issue would have become moot. She may have lived a reduced quality of life, but she would be living. It is the feeding tube, and the fact that she (might have) said she did not want to be hooked up to anything to maintain her life that was the main issue with Michael.
The money he could have accepted certainly would have allowed for the best of care for her. Truly that amount of money could have served them both very well.
But, it seems, the thought of this either did not enter Michael’s mind, or - what seems more obvious - is that he determined not to take the chance of her recovering – for some as yet unknown reason, relating possibly to how she came to be in this state in the first place.
If, on the other hand , with her family hand-feeding her, or therapists or nurses, and with therapy she still did not regain that ability to eat, then she could have died a natural death that would have been God’s decision, and not the decision of Michael and the judge.
Also make you wonder, if the parents have no ulterior motives, why won't they respect the husband's wishes? Regardless of how you feel about the Terri Schaivo case, it is his wife and Michael has the final say. Otherwise, do you believe parents have a stronger legal voice that a spouse?
>>Makes you wonder, if he's got no ulterior motives, why won't he respect the parents' wishes? Gee, what could he be trying to hide?? Argh....<<
My wife scattered her first husbands ashes in a predetermined spot that only they were to know about. To this day it is a point of contention with her and his parents. She had no ulterior motives, but was honoring his AND HER wishes. They can just but the heck out.
Terri is no longer "theirs." She gave herself to him at the alter, and her dad "gave her away."
Whether people like it or not, this is the fact of Christian marriage.
His motives are crystal clear.
Power and hate.
He has the legal power, and he's not surrendering an iota of it for decency or feelings.
And he hates. He HATES Terri for staying alive this long, and he hates her parents.