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> How does an attorney know whether you are incapacitated? You realize that the system to deal with this already exists? It's called the legal system, and it h
by aasasd 4y ago
> How does an attorney know whether you are incapacitated?
You realize that the system to deal with this already exists? It's called the legal system, and it hooks into various specialized professions, including medical ones. As in, the partner brings the lawyer some papers from doctors that say you're out of commission, and the lawyer executes whatever procedure you prescribed for such a case. The same way as when you're dead, just without the death part (hopefully).
(Cue HNers saying that the papers can be forged, etc.—if that's the worry, one has more immediate problems in their relationship than the arrangement of a ‘dead man switch’.)
Sometimes I have to wonder if a bunch of hackers from ~2000s decided to live entirely in computer systems, and forgot that the ‘hacker ethos’ pertains also to researching and using existing systems.
- dane-pgp 4y agoFortunately I've never had to try procuring legally-verifiable paperwork from a doctor to prove that a loved one is too sick to tell me their password, but I have to admit that such a process probably does exist, and someone could navigate their way through it during an emotional difficult time. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.