robkelk Wrote:That's part of why it's everyone else's business. Who automatically gets on the "visit" list when the patient can't write it?
That was why I was trying to suggest that one should be able to put a list in place and make edits to it any time they feel like, long before they actually end up in the hospital. '.'
Marriage vs. civil unions: I don't remember where I ran into it, but there was an idea that I really liked - for government to just get out of the marriage business entirely. The government provides civil unions to same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike, which do the things marriage-according-to-government currently does (including hospital visitation, natch), and marriage becomes the domain of churches, who can come up with whatever restrictions they like without it causing any major issues.
-Morgan.