Would the families rather have $1 million each or re-entry?

Stuff reports:

The Government had budgeted $7.6 million a year for three years, up to $23m, for the agency and re-entry.

An explosion ripped through the West Coast mine on November 19, 2010, killing 29 men. Their bodies have not been recovered.

$23 million is a lot of money. I don’t begrudge it, if a re-entry can be done safely. But it does make me wonder whether the families would appreciate an offer of spending that $23 million on them directly, rather than a re-entry attempt that might not even be successful.