[Servant of the 9]

How incredibly irrational.If we take your logic to its conclusion the first act of any newborn should be to have a living will drafted.

A minor doesn't need one. Someone who doesn't care what happens to him doesn't need one. Anyone who doesn't have one shortly after their 18th birthday is a fool.

SO9

[freecopper01]

I thought you were silly. Now I know you to be so old and lonely inside. What a sorrowful creature...and tired and bitter. I think you would be better..content and peaceful - rather than having already conceded to death. What scares you so much about the thought of people wanting to live? Do you suffer with wondering if perhaps when your father asked you to help kill him, maybe he wanted you to say no? Must be hard being inside the soul of an unforgiving person - especially if the unforgiven is your own self. Sorrowful.

[northernlightsII]

A minor does not need one,why not,what if the family is disfunctional?Again I ask you on what basis do you decide that before 18 a person cannot express their wishes for their care. You assume as a matter of course that all parents will actually do what is right. I would like to remind you of all the cases of Jehovah's witnesses refusing transfusions for their children. In most of these cases their guardianship is overridden by the state

[The Red Zone]

The living will is not the be-all, end-all solution to the culture war at hand. Believe it or not, the proxy can legally disregard that document. And in some cases the gummint can pick the proxy.

A wholesale shoring up of the right to live is in order.