"Living Will" vs "Will to Live"

A "Living Will" is horrific thing. All it does is have you freeze the state of medicine in your mind, and carve in stone that you don't want any new and marvelous treatments should something untoward befall your "capacity to make decisions" in the next 10, 20, or 30 years. And it gives arrogant medical personal any excuse to just label your prognosis "futile" and sentence you to an Auschwitz-like starvation bunker experience. My God, how absurd is that? Suppose in 6 years they find a way to snap their fingers, resynch your brainwaves, and snap you out of a coma or vegetative state? Suppose your medical crisis occurs 5 years from now instead of 6. Since you didn't specifically spell out in your "Living Will" that you would want to be fed until the treatment became available, or God forbid that you even might WANT the treatment, they're going to dispose of yout like a piece of garbage?

All a "Living Will" does is let you choose to die. It lets you list, ad-nauseum, all the treatments you "don't want". Well, suppose you DO want whatever's available, INCLUDING food and water delivered by whatever means possible, without some self-ordained ivory tower bio-ethicist, who doesn't even know you, trying to pressure your family into withholding it from you. Well, there is an alternative to the "Living Will", and that is the "Will to Live", for which templates are available here.

And be sure to cross out any of the lines you've intentionally left blank, lest some ivory tower self-appointed god try to, ahem, "insert" something after you've already signed it.