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Thanks Analog, you summed up some stuff I was going to type up earlier in the thread.
I don't think people realize just how estate law and visitation rules at hospitals work. In many cases, you have rights that you CANNOT give away or assign to just anyone. For example, you CANNOT just sign a power of attorney and let a loved one come visit you or make decisions for you in the hospital. The hospitals get to make the rules. And no matter how iron-clad you try to leave your estate to your gay lover, there are many ways in which family, even if you hated them, can make claim to your estate.
With HIPAA regulations, hospitals are even worse now.
Great summary, analog, thanks. As you basically said, I think the next generation will look back on this issue the same way we look back on the interracial marriage issue that our parents and grandparents went through. They will think "how could those backwards-ass old fogies think stuff like this?"
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