At first glance, it's just another form to fill out. One more packet of paper to be buried away with the rest of your records, possibly in some dusty basement somewhere, only to be resurrected in a time of crisis.
Choosing someone to make literal life and death decisions for you is quite an experience. What is the appropriate criteria one uses to select someone to be your benevolent executioner? It can't be someone who is so close that their emotions will trump the necessary objectivity it takes to make the decision to gently extinguish the once bright flame of life that has become, at first glance, so dim and unrecognisable that it might as well be a prison without windows or phones, where the communication is through one way glass, and all you can do is watch them watching nothing, thinking nothing, not knowing if they know that you know they are already gone.
It must be someone who loves you enough to let you go, because it's the right thing to do.
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