Yes. And then sign another authorization for each other topic - another for disposal of my property if I die, one for my funeral preferences, one to pick up my prescriptions, and hope I don’t forget any.

Or, courthouse, one time, 15 minutes, and done.

A marriage license acts like a super convenient combination of othet legal documents.

The point, to me, is using the government to tell hospitals what to do. I don’t want my parents making big decisions for me - I want the family I chose, my spouse, to do that.

Marriage is how I tell the state, and everyone, who my chosen family is.

Sure!

But I don’t expect it to change much.

I could already do that, by hand as well.

It’s a bit like how there’s so many different superheroes who are obviously just off-brand SuperMan or off-brand Captain America.

Minor changes to avoid intellectual property law and branding has always been an option.

And I suppose all of these are easier now with the remixing slop-o-trons.

But they weren’t terribly difficult, or particularly uncommon, even before.

Year of the Linux desktop.

Agreed. But it’s particularly bad this year, because