[@NightinGem] You aren't the only progressive around, although I'll admit that it was a little lonely in here :P I'm sorry that you had those experiences. I've watched people die in hospital beds, knowing that their partners don't have a legal right to be there, knowing they were going to receive no life insurance, knowing that they had no right to their partners body. I literally cried when the Supreme Court made its decision. But yeah, it would be terrible if people were forced to afford them basic human decency.