leon kass, who is not an idiot, he's a famous ethicist and was the chairman of president bush's counseling bioethics, president bush the younger -- he's opposed to living wills because he writes that no one can possibly imagine what they would do in all future contingencies, and there is no substitute for a loving partner. well, good for him. he's got a loving partner, a wife, but there are a lot of people, particularly women, who won't have a loving partner, even if the had a loving partner for most of their lives. and why lit is certainly true that you cannot know what he would do in every circumstance, i can't know, you know, whether if my knee gets worse if i'm willing to go to ray knee replaced or hobble around on a knee i tore up on a lettuce leaf a few years ago. i don't know the answer to that. but i do know that if my brain -- am i hi your brain functions are done that i do not want to be force fed to keep my body alive. i do not want to be hooked up to an artificial ventilator if i'm 85-years-old and cannot be on my own. i can't answer what i would do in every situation doesn't m