On a recent trip to Sicily, we drove down a single road where we came upon a raven picking at a rat.

I quickly swerved around the rat as the raven flew away.

The Family Health Care Decisions Act became New York Law on March 16, 2010.

The new law covers New York residents (other than the developmentally disabled and the mentally retarded who are covered under a different statute) who lack the capacity to make health care and end of life decisions for themselves, even if such individuals previously had capacity but never expressed their wishes in a health care proxy or living will. This new law was 17 years in the making.

John: I do not understand why I need to make things so complicated. If anything should happen to me, my wife of 40 years, Sally, will take care of me. She knows what is best for me.