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Originally Posted by Kyuusai
Regardless of our disagreement on whether these things should be part of the "marriage package" and the government's recognition of marriage, do you disagree that extending all of these privileges and agreements to be available piecemeal to everyone, regardless of marriage status, would be an equitable solution?
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You'll have to forgive me, because your question doesn't make much sense, and we may have a fundamental misscommunication here.
Everyone already has these benefits. You can already designate someone with Power of Attorney to handle things about you and your estate if you're not in a condition to do so yourself; at least in the US.
The point I keep hitting at, though, is that not everyone does this. And not everyone is prepared when an accident or something happens. So I bring the same question back to you yet again:
Who should the "power of attorney" default to, if *NO ONE* is selected, and a person is unable to so themselves?