>The fact is that Living Wills are a death sentence to anyone that signs one. It has little to do with “a hunk of inert protoplasm sucking in nutrients and excreting as the only characteristics of being alive” as you so indelicately put it.
It has everything to do with the motivation about why someone would draw up such a document and sign it. People know it is possible to end up as a hunk of meat that has no way of communicating or being part of the world other than ingesting and getting wiped down, and there are MANY of us that view this prospect with the utmost horror and do NOT want that for themselves or their families to endure. Do you acknowledge that at least?
Oh and by the way...
> as you so indelicately put it
Yes, I did put it indelicately. Because the prospect of becoming a zombie-thing with no way to interact with the world is like something out of a horror movie. Some dire medical issues are “icky” and if you get faced with them it isn’t like the hospital TV shows with the music and the pretty doctors and nurses. It’s blood and and pain and excrement and is realer than real. “Indelicate”? Oh brother.
As I said, that’s your choice. I also said that that description did not describe Hanford Pinette. Living Wills are being used to kill.