[general_re]

Ummm, no, what you appear to want is to take a right available during a specific proceeding and turn it into a universal and perpetual right. I've gotta tell ya, if, God forbid, something happened to my wife or child, you're suggesting that some complete stranger is going to come into our lives and tell me what my wife wants, what's best for my child. I wouldn't stand for it, nobody will stand for it, and I have serious doubts that you're bananas enough to find it acceptable in your own family life, particularly when faced with such incredibly personal decisions as what to do with an incapacitated loved one. I don't believe it for a minute, and the instant your plan gets cast in those terms, any support for it is going to disappear like smoke in the wind. Your cure is far, far worse than the disease.

[AndrewC]

Ummm, no, what you appear to want is to take a right available during a specific proceeding and turn it into a universal and perpetual right.

No, I'm saying that words mean things and they are not just space fillers. In Florida, an incapacitated person has the "right to counsel" despite your feelings on the matter.