[AndrewC]

The whole point to these sorts of proceedings is to determine what people who can't speak for themselves would say if they could speak for themselves. Your next-of-kin and the guardian ad litem, if any, are presumed to be acting on your behalf - their counsel is your counsel. Now, if you want to change the nature of due process to require something else, be my guest, but I predict you'll encounter far more resistance than you think. People are simply not that interested in the state intruding any further into those sorts of decisions.

If that is true, it makes this part of Florida law have no effect.

Florida Statute. 744.3215 Rights of persons determined incapacitated.--

(1) A person who has been determined to be incapacitated retains the right:

...

(l) To counsel.

Because that person must have someone speaking for them in court by circumstance.

[general_re]

And who's going to express to counsel what you wanted when you can't do that, so that aforementioned counsel may effectively represent your interests?