TodaysWashington Post has an op-ed piece by Charlotte Allen on living wills. The inside-link has the headline I chose for this thread. She recounts her being urged to sign a living will. She makes some good points, I think, and the solution she proposes, urged by a Hastings Center Report, is that instead one "execute a durable power of attorney, a simple document that entrusts decisions about end-of-life care to a relative or friend who shares the signers moral beliefs about death and dying."