[extropy-chat] Moveon.org

Brent Neal brentn at freeshell.org
Fri Sep 17 01:55:39 UTC 2004


 (9/16/04 18:00) Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:

>You can reproduce EVERY aspect of a regular legal marriage with
>contract law and business partnership agreements, except ONE: social
>security benefits inheritance.


Not true.  Try going to the hospital, even with a health care power of attorney, to sit at the bedside of someone who isn't in your immediate family. The HCPA will let you see their doctor, but the doctor will keep you from seeing your partner.  Seen that. Very ugly. 

B

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